GStreamer license question

[Russel Winder]

Remember thought that what has been said here is not a legal opinion, it is
the working interpretation of software developers who have some experience
of the law. Two important points:

1. Jurisdiction is critical: what is legal in one jurisdication may be
illegal in another: you have to know which jurisdiction is applicable.

2. If you need a legal opinion, get a lawyer to give you an official opinion
for the jursdictions that are important to you.

(I have been through all of this a few times now, and getting a formal legal
opinion in each of the cases, whilst (very, very) expensive, was worth every
penny.)

On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 08:18 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.co
> m>
> 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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