[gst-embedded] aacparse and amrparse license in gst-plugin-bad

Stefan Kost ensonic at hora-obscura.de
Thu May 6 08:06:04 PDT 2010


LIANG ZHAO wrote:
> Yes, I agree, but gst-plugin-base and gst-plugin-good can be
> considered as "safety" in practice?

yes, thats the idea.

Stefan

>
> 2010/4/25 Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de
> <mailto:ensonic at hora-obscura.de>>
>
>     Am 22.04.2010 04:31, schrieb LIANG ZHAO:
>     > Thanks Stefan.
>     >
>     > I am not familiar with OSS license, but I know the LGPL has
>     > "Redistribute" feature. That means if some commercial products have
>     > integrated it, we can use it freely and safety according
>     "Redistribute".
>     >
>     > By my search on google, I find maemo5 and Fedora have integrated
>     > gst-plugin-bad, so by my understanding, it should be ok for me
>     too on
>     > gst-plugin-bad.
>     >
>     > From gstreamer website, it describes gst-plugin-bad not like
>     > gst-plugin-ugly.
>     >
>     > "GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good
>     quality and
>     > correct functionality, but distributing them might pose
>     problems. The
>     > license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might
>     not be
>     > how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent
>     problems.  "
>     >
>     > " GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par
>     > compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but
>     > they're missing something - be it a good code review, some
>     > documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some
>     actual
>     > wide use. "
>     >
>     > Seems gst-plugin-bad has no license issues but not good quality than
>     > gst-plugin-ugly.
>
>     gst-plugin-bad can have both license and/or quality issues. Anyway
>     if you want
>     to use those plugins in a commerical product review the code with
>     IPR/Legal
>     persons - it is not only the license that matters.
>
>     Stefan
>
>
>     >
>     >
>     > 2010/4/21 Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de
>     <mailto:ensonic at hora-obscura.de>
>     > <mailto:ensonic at hora-obscura.de <mailto:ensonic at hora-obscura.de>>>
>     >
>     >     Liang Zhao wrote:
>     >     > Hi,
>     >     >
>     >     > Could someone help me on aacparse and amrparse license in
>     >     > gst-plugin-bad? I want to integrate these 2 elements into
>     our product,
>     >     > but I don't know whether the LGPL is the license issue?
>     >
>     >     You find the lices stated in the plugin and also at thye top
>     of the
>     >     source files. It is up to you to decide wheter LGPL is fine
>     for you
>     >     or not.
>     >     >
>     >     > I find in maemo5 SDK ARMEL binary, they are integrated
>     into it, and
>     >     > marked as LGPL, does that mean I can use it freely and
>     safely on law?
>     >     > I also find no mp3parse and asfdemux in it, does that mean
>     it is have
>     >     > issues on the LGPL license? or I need to re-implement it with
>     >     > proprietary license.
>     >     mp3parse should be fine as LGPLK and should be moved out
>     >     gst-plugins-ugly. for asf you find licese details on
>     microsoft webpages.
>     >
>     >     Stefan
>     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks
>     >     >
>     >     > --
>     >     > BRs.
>     >     > Zhao Liang
>     >     >
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