gst-rtsp-server license confusion (GPL or LGPL?)

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 14:03 -0700, enthusiastic geek wrote:

> My understanding is
> 
> LGPL =  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE? (can be used in freeware and
> commercial)
> 
> But from what I read
> 
> LGPL =  GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (used only in freeware?)

Where did you read that? Have you tried reading the license? Lots of
people are using GStreamer commercially with this license...

Basically, LGPL = LGPL. At some point the GNU folks decided that they
wanted to encourage people to license their libraries as GPL, at which
point the "Library GPL" got renamed to/refered to as "Lesser GPL".

Cheers 
 -Tim