[gst-devel] License field patch

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 15:04, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Ok, here is my patch for adding a license field to GStreamer. I have
> tested to work for the Goom plugin. If this core patch is ok, I will
> progress to add license info to all plugins. 
> 
> The license I will list is the effective license. Meaning that plugins
> based on GPL libs will be listed as GPL. Other plugins will probably all
> be listed as LGPL as that is the license of our plugin code. Of course
> if I find that the underlying library has a license that adds special
> considerations I will list that license instead of the LGPL.

you should also add something like:

#define GST_LICENSE_GPL "GPL"
#define GST_LICENSE_LGPL "LGPL"
etc.

So that people would use these in their plugins instead of the names.
Will make it easier to translate once GST is to be i18ned.

Cheers

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