[gst-devel] Looking for a non-GPL licence MP3 player plugin

[Brian Cameron]

Ronald:

> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:59, Ghee Teo wrote:
> > - ffmpeg :- because it is based on LAME which I believe is GPL
> 
> lame is an encoder. :). The decoder is LGPL.

When I go to lame's website, and read the following:

  http://lame.sourceforge.net/license.txt

It seems to indicate that lame is LGPL through-and-through.  It
does say that the decoding fucntions use the mpglib decoding
enging, which is under the GPL.  However, looking at the mpg123
website, I notice that the license for mpglib was changed to
LGPL.  Note the news for May 18, 2001.

  http://www.mpg123.de/

So, Ronald, I'm not sure why you say "lame is an encoder.  The 
decoder is LGPL".  Isn't lame LGPL through-and-through (assuming
you use a version of mpglib that is also LGPL)?

Thanks!

Brian