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Libopenshot is dual-licensed under the LGPL version 3 and a simple commercial license. We recommend you first try the open-source version, and once you've verified it satisfies your project's needs, then migrate to a commercial license. The funds from commercial licenses are used by OpenShot Studios, LLC to develop OpenShot Video Editor, our award-winning open-source desktop video editor. We feel this is a fair trade-off, and helps fund the continued development of OpenShot Video Editor. Commercial license does not include a license to <a href="%(juce_url)s" target="_blank">JUCE</a> (used for audio functionality) or any other dependent libraries. Feel free to <a href="%(email)s">email us</a> if you are interested in learning more.

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Behind every great program, is a great story. Well... I'm not sure if this is a great story or not, but here it is. My name is <a href="%(jonathan_url)s">Jonathan Thomas</a>. I live near Dallas, in North Texas (USA). I am a professional software / web developer (20+ years experience).

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In early 2008, I first installed <a href="%(ubuntu_url)s" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a>. I was very impressed, but like many people, I realized immediately the lack of a video editor. For weeks I researched, downloaded, configured, compiled, and installed any Linux video editor I could find. It turns out there are many, but none that met my simple criteria:

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So, after much consideration, I decided to start my own video editor project in August of 2008. Sounds easy right? However, as I learned, I had many challenges awaiting me.

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I barely knew Linux

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I barely knew anything about programming on Linux (all of my experience was with Microsoft C# and the .NET Framework)

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I had no idea how to mix video & audio via code

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I decided it would be an interesting challenge, and it was worth attempting. I quickly decided on the Python programming language, for it's speed, beauty, and it's rich bindings for many libraries.

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One of my friends suggested that I should track my progress with a blog. Although I had no experience blogging, it turned out to be one of the best decisions I've made. It has allowed me to document my key decisions, meet many interesting people, and most importantly, it gives me a direct feedback loop with the video editing community.

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The last piece missing from the puzzle was a good multimedia framework (i.e. the library that does all the video and audio mixing). MLT. Enough said.