[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  2004-08-13 11:13 -------

Ronald:

This probably needs to hashed out a bit further.  First of all, there are some
plugins in gst-plugins that are derived from GPL code, and contain a GPL
license.  These are the plugins that are GPL'ed: monoscope, jack, rtjpeg, 
tp, synaesthesia, vbidec, dvdreadsrc, system_encode, and mpeg1sys

Currently, all plugins in gst-plugins that are LGPL but make use of a GPL 
library are marked as GPL, so that when you run gst-inpsect, they say GPL.

Since it seems that an eventual goal of gst-plugins is to make all the plugins
LGPL, I'm not sure what the value of gst-inspect is if it says LGPL for
all of them.  

Personally, I think it is more interesting and useful for gst-inspect to tell
you what license you inherit by using the plugin as opposed to the the 
licensing of the plugin itself.

However, I don't really care which way we decide to do it.  But we should
decide, and make it consistant.  Currently, it isn't consistant.  Some
plugins tell you what license they inherit and some don't.


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