[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] zeenix gst-plugins-bad: gst-plugins-bad/ gst-plugins-bad/ext/gsm/

[burgerman at users.sourceforge.net]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:18:45 +0200
Andy Wingo <wingo at pobox.com> wrote:

Hey,

> Hi Philippe,
> 
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0400, burgerman at users.sourceforge.net
> wrote:
> > What makes you think they are clearly taken from gstreamer, modified
> and
> > then returned?
> 
> The diff was small? If that is not the case, my apologies.
> 
> That said, patches are normally preferable to rewrites of course --
> the
> bugs you know are better than the ones you don't, etc...
> 
> >  The only thing that has been taken and modified is the
> > plugin template, but then again all plugins have pretty much the
> > same
> > basic template right? I mean I don't want to make a fuss but I would
> > like to understand. Also does this mean that any gstreamer element
> > must
> > have GStreamer at the top in the copyrights?
> 
> I don't mean to be petty either :-) I think the general guideline
> would
> be that if you write a plugin from scratch (including from the
> template), you put yourself as the only author. So you were probably
> right.

Ok got it.

> > > >  GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
> > > >      GST_VERSION_MINOR,
> > > >      "gsm",
> > > > -    "GSM Elements Plugin",
> > > > -    plugin_init, VERSION, "LGPL", GST_PACKAGE, GST_ORIGIN)
> > > > +    "GSM encoder/decoder",
> > > > +    plugin_init, VERSION, "LGPL", "Farsight",
> > "http://farsight.sf.net")
> > > 
> > > Likewise...
> > 
> > Same thing here.
> 
> No, since it's in GStreamer cvs it is not coming from Farsight any
> more.
> These fields are reserved so that external distributors (e.g.
> Farsight)
> can label their plugins as not being part of GStreamer. Now that the
> plugin is part of GStreamer, its origin is GStreamer.

Ok got it thanks for the explanation.

Laterz,
Philippe Khalaf