gstreamer open source

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le mar. 29 oct. 2019 11 h 55, Atzmon dahan <atzmon.dahan at outlook.com> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I have an issue and I'd like to consult with you. I hope I have reached
> the right address.
> The issue is:
> The last company I worked for closed two months ago.
> One of the products of this company is P2P which is based on gstreamer.
> (*libiconv gnustl gettext libffi zlib glib nettle libtasn1 bnutic-fixup
> gnutls glib-networking-static libxml2 libsoup gssdp libuuid gupnp gupnp-igd
> libnice*)
> A P2P recipe had been added and was developed by the company.
> gstreamer libraries together with P2P recipe create P2P  library on mobile and
> bin execute on device and server.
> The P2P product  based on gstreamer has been running for *more than 3
> years* and used by cloud customers.
> *The director of  former company claims for ownship of the P2P product
> based on gstreamer code!*
>

Legal questions are always very hard to openly discussed. There is no
lawyer on this mailing, and a lot more context would be needed to make a
case.


> My questions:
> 1.Is it legal for the director to claim ownership of the code?
>

It is entirely legal to make proprietary plugins to be used inside
GStreamer framework, or to write a proprietary application on top of
GStreamer. What's would not be ok, would be to ship a product with a
modified GStreamer and not share the changes to the people this was
distributed to.

I don't see in your intro any sign of such thing being breached.

2.They committed to making the development of the company public after the
> 3 years in which the product ran in the market,aren't they?
>

I'm not sure how to interpret this one. But verbal disagreement between two
party are likely the hardest to resolve. Have you well communicated your
disagreement ? Or maybe requested help from a mediator ?


> I will appreciate your consideration of the topic.
>
> Regards
>
> Atzmon Dahan
> Free Lancer
> RT embedded Engineer
>
>
>
>
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