[gst-devel] Re: Gstreamer Player "Livin' la vida loca" 0.6.0 released

[Christian Schaller]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:29, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 18:50, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 19:11, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:47, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > > > Ok, first release note missed the download link :)
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 14:34, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > > > > Gstreamer Player "Livin' la vida loca" 0.6.0 released
> > > <snip>
> > > > >       * License mostly changed to LGPL. The playlist is still GPL.
> > > 
> > > Since when is the LGPL GPL-compatible?
> > Are you smoking something? The LGPL has a always been GPL compatible,
> > there is even a specific mention of it in the LGPL text:
> > 
> > "3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
> > License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library."
> > 
> > The basis for something being GPL compatible is being relicensable to
> > the GPL due to the viral effect of the GPL. Which means of course as
> > long as you keep the GPL piece of code the whole application would need
> > to be distributed under the terms of the GPL, but it also means that if
> > someone don't want to do that they would just need to rip out the GPL
> > code and they can distribute they thing under the terms of the LGPL.
> 
> gst-player isn't a library.
> 
Well it contains a library ;), but the main reason is says that is
because that is the standard text of the LGPL, I didn't bother editing
it, and afaik nobody else has ever bothered changing that either when
using LGPL for an app.

Christian
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