GStreamer SDK – Preview release for Android

[cowwoc]

     x264 is GPL, no doubt about that. I didn't check the bigger 
library, but we'd definitely need to be able to indicate whether it 
should be included or excluded.

     That brings up a bigger question: do we have fine-grained control 
about which plugins get included or excluded as part of the Android 
build? Do you support building *all* the plugins that are available for 
Linux?

Thanks,
Gili

On 05/10/2012 4:50 PM, Dragos D wrote:
>
> My understanding is that ffmpeg is LGPL, but what about x264? By the 
> way, is it included in the big GStreamer library?
>
> On Oct 5, 2012 4:33 PM, "Sebastian Dröge" 
> <sebastian.droege at collabora.co.uk 
> <mailto:sebastian.droege at collabora.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On Fr, 2012-10-05 at 16:10 -0400, cowwoc wrote:
>     > What's the impact of static linking followed by dynamic linking as
>     > you mentioned? I assume from a legal/LGPL point of view, it's as if
>     > we're dynamically linking our application with GStreamer, correct?
>
>     I'm not a lawyer but general understanding of LGPL and static linking
>     is, that you need to provide all means to be able to relink the
>     application against modified versions of the LGPL'd libraries.
>
>     If you take a look at the approach we did for static linking here
>     you'll
>     notice that this is absolutely nothing to worry about. All (LGPL'd)
>     GStreamer code is linked into a single shared library from these
>     static
>     libraries and your application code is a) separate from this and
>     b) uses
>     GStreamer and related libraries like a shared library, thus the same
>     rules apply as for using GStreamer as a shared library.
>
>     E.g. the demo application I linked in the original mail contains one
>     shared library libgstreamer_android.so, which contains all of
>     GStreamer,
>     dependencies, plugins. And another library libtutorial-5.so, which
>     contains the native code of the application.
>
>
>     There should be no problem developing closed source, commercial
>     applications with this approach as it's the same situation you have on
>     desktop systems with shared LGPL'd libraries.
>
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