Including LGPL libraries in your software and not getting sued

[Levit]

CONTEXT
After some time of frustration with the UX of some existing Windows apps out there for quick media editing, I saw a potential value skew, but I mostly wanted to solve my own problem. So I started designing a basic app that I'd like to sell.
The thing is, I'm not a 10X low-level native app dev. I just do web development, so I have to make do with frameworks like Electron and libraries for editing the video, like FFMPEG.
So the first issue is that FFMPEG falls under an LGPL licence (Lesser General Public License), and I don't have any experience in navigating how to commercially distribute software that makes use of a library under LGPL.

TL;DR
I'm making a commercial native app and want to include a library that is under an LGPL licence. What steps do I need to take to avoid legal issues?


I asked ChatGPT to simplify it for me, and it said the following:

1. The LGPL allows developers to use and integrate LGPL-licensed software into their own, even if the latter is proprietary, without being required to release the source code of their own software parts. But any changes made to the LGPL-licensed software itself must be released under the same LGPL license.
2. If you use LGPL-licensed software (like a library) in your program, you can keep your program proprietary, meaning you don't have to release your source code. This is the key difference from the GPL, which requires derivative works also to be licensed under the GPL.
3. LGPL-licensed software must be allowed to be reverse-engineered to debug any modifications.

Now that sounds somewhat encouraging, but I'm 1. not sure if I can trust AI here and 2. not 100% sure how to execute on that.
I don't think I'll be modifying FFMPEGs code whatsoever, so does that mean I can simply like to FFMPEG original source code and not have to provide my own apps source code?

It says, "LGPL-licensed software must be allowed to be reverse-engineered to debug any modification"...so I'm not sure about this one, if my commercial app isn't LGPL then technically, I shouldn't have to allow people to reverse-engineer it, should I?

What's even more confusing is that FFMPEG itself seems to fall under LGPL 2.1 and the Node package I wanted to use ffmpeg-static falls under LGPL 3.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Perhaps I'm overthinking it.

 

Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member: Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)

[Levit]

Tiioph et pu upi siqmoif vu vjot, O'mm aqfevi vjot qutv xovj xjev O guapf uav katv op deti epzupi imti jet vji teni raitvoup.
Tu, MHQM niept zua dep mopl vu ov woe e moplis, cav og zua nufogz vjev mocsesz't dufi, zua jewi vu qacmotj zuas nufogodevoupt us fupevi vjin cedl.

HQM niept zua natv fotvsocavi zuas dufi iwip og emm zua fu ot mopl vu vji mocsesz. Juxiwis, og zua piwis mopl ov op epf upmz sap ov et ep iyvispem qsuhsen woe ep JVVQ opvisgedi us tuni lopf ug pivxusloph, vjip zua upmz jewi vu fotvsocavi zuas djephit vu vjev HQM qsukidv, puv zuas uxp dufi.

Vjev't xjz Enebup epf emm vjuti dunqepoit dep veli e HQM qsukidv epf timm ov op vji dmuaf. Vjev't xjisi vji EHQM dunit op, epf vjev tezt, iwip og zua veml vu ov uwis vji pivxusl, zua jewi vu simieti zuas dufi. OOSD, ov iwip tezt ov dep upmz veml vu uvjis EHQM qsukidvt, epf epzvjoph puv EHQM natv ci simietif.