[gst-devel] Re: Gstreamer Player "Livin' la vida loca" 0.6.0 released

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 18:50, Christian Schaller wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 19:11, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:47, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > > Ok, first release note missed the download link :)
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 14:34, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > > > Gstreamer Player "Livin' la vida loca" 0.6.0 released
> > <snip>
> > > >       * License mostly changed to LGPL. The playlist is still GPL.
> > 
> > Since when is the LGPL GPL-compatible?
> Are you smoking something? The LGPL has a always been GPL compatible,
> there is even a specific mention of it in the LGPL text:
> 
> "3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
> License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library."
> 
> The basis for something being GPL compatible is being relicensable to
> the GPL due to the viral effect of the GPL. Which means of course as
> long as you keep the GPL piece of code the whole application would need
> to be distributed under the terms of the GPL, but it also means that if
> someone don't want to do that they would just need to rip out the GPL
> code and they can distribute they thing under the terms of the LGPL.

gst-player isn't a library.

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