<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Hi Kevin,</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 16:10 -0700, kevin bergner wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>if a commercial product uses gstreamer what documentation needs to be</pre><pre>included? is there any legal recourse if the company does not do it?</pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><div>For legal advice you should ask your lawyer, I am not a lawyer.</div><div><br></div><div>But generally for GStreamer you have to follow the rules of the LGPL license, version 2.1 or at your choice any later version. There are lots of articles and FAQs on the Internet for explaining these in non-legal terms but in short (and possible incomplete): you have to make any modifications to LGPL-licensed code available to your users but your application code can be under whatever license you like as long as you allow your users to run the application against a modified version of the LGPL-licensed code. In addition you need to tell your users about the LGPL-licensed code that is included in your product and about the terms of the license.</div><div><br></div><div>Legal recourse is the same as with any copyright violation, nothing specific about GStreamer here. Someone owning copyright of portions of the code you're using could sue you if they believe the terms of the license are not followed.</div><pre><br></pre><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div style="width: 71ch;">Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · <a href="https://www.centricular.com">https://www.centricular.com</a></div></span></div></body></html>