GStreamer license question

[Aaron Boxer]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

> On Mi, 2016-03-30 at 07:56 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for my question, but
> > here goes
> >
> > Is it acceptable to distribute GStreamer under GPL v3 ?
> >
> > Since the library is released under LGPL 2, the LGPL license
> > allows for a distribution under GPL 2+.
> >
> > I just want to double check that this is fine.
>
> GStreamer itself and all its dependencies are LGPL version 2 (or at
> your option) any later version. So that covers the GPL 2 and also the
> GPL 3.
>
> All the plugins we distribute are also at GPL compatible (including
> their dependencies) and I'm not aware of any GPL 2 only one, but they
> might not be LGPL compatible (that is, they might be GPL licensed). For
> 3rd party plugins you'll have to check yourself.
>
>
> So in general, distributing under the GPL v3 should be no problem. The
> LGPL is basically a weaker version of the GPL that additionally allows
> linking of non-GPL compatible code with the GStreamer library (i.e. you
> can build a proprietary application on top of GStreamer).
>

Perfect. Thanks!
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