[Bug 792577] License incompatibility

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792577

Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |slomo at coaxion.net,
                   |                            |thaytan at noraisin.net
         Resolution|INVALID                     |---

--- Comment #2 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
What the reporter says is that the licenses are incompatible in itself, making
it impossible to distribute the code to anybody.


1) resindvd: It also contains LGPLv2+ code. And the MPL-1.1 code seems like a
older copy of the same code from gst/mpegdemux, just that those are
LGPLv2+/MPL-1.1 dual licensed. This should probably be cleaned up.

Jan probably remembers why he copied that code and what changes there are.


2) androidmedia: Apache-2 license is compatible with (L)GPLv3+. The
androidmedia code is LGPLv2+, so that seems all covered.

The Apache-2 license is incompatible with GPLv2, but I don't know if the same
problem also applies to the LGPLv2. Someone needs to investigate that if they
want to distribute it under the terms of the LGPLv2 instead of LGPLv3.

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