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<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div>On Sat, 2023-05-06 at 08:57 +0000, Zhi He via gstreamer-devel wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">I’m a developer of a gstreamer plugin for specific chip, may I ask some license questions of gstreamer plugin?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">1) The gstreamer plugin shall follow same license with gstreamer (LGPL v2), is it true?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The GStreamer library license has been chosen specifically to allow plugins with a range of different licenses including proprietary licenses.</div><div><br></div><div>So it's perfectly fine to write and ship proprietary plugins, for example. And some hardware vendors do that already.</div><div><br></div><div>However, if you want to propose your gstreamer plugin for inclusion in the upstream GStreamer project, we will usually ask for it to be licensed LGPL v2+, MPL v2, BSD or MIT.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">2) If 1) is no, the gstreamer plugin license can be other open source license like “Apache 2.0 License”, “BSD-2-Clause”, “BSD-3-Clause”, “MIT license”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Correct.</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">3) If 1) is no, the gstreamer plugin license can be non-open source or property license?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is also correct, and there are quite a few companies shipping proprietary GStreamer plugins (hardware vendors and others).</div><div><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Disclaimer: IANAL, and these are all things you should ask your lawyers about :)</div><div><br></div><div>There are some <a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/frequently-asked-questions/licensing.html?gi-language=c">notes on licensing our FAQ</a> as well but they don't address your questions specifically.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div> Tim</div><div><span></span></div></body></html>