GStreamer license question

Aaron Boxer boxerab at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 14:07:58 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

> On Mi, 2016-03-30 at 08:46 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> > Le mercredi 30 mars 2016 à 13:30 +0100, Russel Winder a écrit :
> > >
> > Though, we invite users not to be scared. This non-legal opinion was
> > formulated by GStreamer's main contributor. Only authors may take legal
> > action against someone miss-distributing this software. If we, by
> > accident miss-guided you, we will certainly help you fix it, rather
> > then harm you in the first place.
>
> Also in this case it is the opinion of the FSF who designed these
> licenses, and one of the design goals of the GPL/LGPL (both being
> upwards compatible if all code involved says "or any later version",
> and both being compatible with each other by making the combined work
> GPL). It's a quite clear case for once.
>

Thanks, I agree, it is clear.
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