[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 149536] - licensing problems in gst-plugins

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149536
GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: HEAD CVS





------- Additional Comments From brian.cameron at sun.com  2004-08-12 16:55 -------

Thanks.  I think that gst-inspect is now showing the right information about the
plugins reported above.  However, my understanding is that all GPL based plugins
will need to be removed from gst-plugins or rewritten to be LGPL by the 0.9 release.

Also, in further research, I notice the following:

+ ogg, vorbis, gsttheora, speex all have BSD licenses
+ gsm, faac, festival, jpeg, nas and snapshot all use free licenses which are
  not GPL or LPGL.
+ ximagesink and xvimagesink are under the MIT X11 / X Consortium license

Should gst-inspect reflect the license of the library, which the user inherits
rather than the license of the plugin?  For LGPL'ed plugins that use GPL'ed
libraries, these plugins report "GPL" to let the user know the plugin licensing.

After all, if the goal is to eventually have all plugins in gst-plugins be LGPL,
it isn't very interesting for them all to report "LGPL" when that happens. 


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