LICENSE_readme

   1
   2 Disclaimer:  The GStreamer team makes a real effort to make sure that
   3 the information in this file is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.
   4 However, this file may contain errors and omissions.  Some dependant
   5 libraries change their licensing from version-to-version and some of
   6 the libraries listed here as LGPL were under the GPL license in
   7 older releases.  Distributions which include GStreamer are responsible
   8 for ensuring that plugins are used in accordance with licensing terms
   9 and other laws.
  10
  11 GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for details).
  12 Some of our plugins however rely on libraries which are available under other
  13 licenses. This means that if you are using an application which has a non-GPL
  14 compatible license, for instance a closed-source application with GStreamer
  15 you have to make sure not to use GPL linked or derived plugins.  When using
  16 GPL linked plugins GStreamer is for all practical reasons under the GPL itself.
  17
  18 The plugins which use a GPL library are as follows:
  19
  20 a52dec           liba52           (http://liba52.sourceforge.net/)
  21 aasink           aalib            (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/)
  22 cdparanoia       libcdparanoia    (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/)
  23 dtsdec           libdts           (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
  24 dvdnavsrc        libdvdnav        (http://dvd.sourceforge.net/)
  25 dxr3                              (http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/)
  26 mad              libmad           (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/)
  27 mpeg2dec         libmpeg2         (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/)
  28 mpeg2enc         libmpeg2enc      (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
  29 mplex            libmplex         (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
  30 siddec           libsidplay 1.36  (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/,
  31                                    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/)
  32 trm              libmusicbrainz   (http://www.musicbrainz.org/)
  33 xine             libxine          (http://xinehq.de/)
  34 xvid             libxvidcore      (http://www.xvid.org/)
  35
  36 Plugins derived from GPL code are as follows:
  37
  38 dvdreadsrc       libdvdread       (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/)
  39 monoscope        None             (Algorithm by Ralph Loader, Joerg Walter,
  40                                    Richard Boulton, and Andy Lo A Foe)
  41 rtjpeg           None             (Erik Walthinsen's algorithm)
  42 rtp              None             (http://www.linphone.org/ortp/)
  43 synaesthesia                      (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/synaesthesia)
  44 system_encode    None             (Algorithm by Chrisoph Moar, Wim Tayman's and
  45                                    Erik Walthinsen)
  46 vbidec           None             (Algorithm by Billy Biggs, Doug Bell,
  47                                    Erik Walthinsen and David I. Lehn)
  48
  49 Plugins which use a LGPL library are as follows:
  50
  51 alsa             alsa             (http://alsa-project.org/)
  52 cacasink         libcaca          (http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/)
  53 dvdec            libdv            (http://libdv.sourceforge.net/)
  54 esdmon,esdsink   libesd           (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/)
  55 faac             libfaac          (http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/)
  56 fameenc          libfame          (http://fame.sourceforge.net/)
  57 ffmpeg           ffmpeg           (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/)
  58 gdkpixbuf        GTK+             (http://www.gtk.org/)
  59 gnomevfs         gnome-vfs        (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs/)
  60 gst1394          libraw1394       (http://www.linux1394.org/)
  61 gstaf            libaudiofile     (http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/)
  62 gstsf            libsndfile       (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/)
  63 kio              KDE              (http://www.kde.org/)
  64 ladspa                            (http://www.ladspa.org/)
  65 lame             libmp3lame       (http://lame.sourceforge.net/)
  66 libvisual        libvisual        (http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/)
  67 matroska                          (http://www.matroska.org/)
  68 mikmod           libmikmod        (http://mikmod.raphnet.net/)
  69 ossaudio                          (http://www.opensound.com/)
  70 qcamsrc
  71 rfbenc           librfb
  72 sdlvideosink     libsdl           (http://www.libsdl.org/)
  73 smoothwave
  74 swfdec                            (http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/)
  75 tarkin                            (http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/tarkin/)
  76 textoverlay      pango            (http://www.pango.org/)
  77 dirac                             (http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/)
  78 effectv (Our ports was relicensed)(http://effectv.sourceforge.net/)
  79 musepack                          (http://www.musepack.net/)
  80 kate             libtiger         (http://libtiger.googlecode.com/)
  81                                    Optional, only for the tiger element
  82
  83 Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows:
  84
  85 ogg              libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
  86 vorbis           libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
  87 gsttheora        libtheora        (http://www.theora.org/)
  88 speex                             (http://www.speex.org/)
  89 flac             libFLAC          (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
  90 kate             libkate          (http://libkate.googlecode.com/)
  91
  92 Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses:
  93
  94 ximagesink       libXv
  95 xvimagesink      libXv
  96  - license:      MIT X11 / X Consortium license
  97
  98 gsm              libgsm
  99  - license       MIT license http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
 100
 101 festival                          (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/)
 102  - license:      http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/freecopyright.shtml
 103
 104 jpeg                              (http://www.ijg.org/)
 105  - license:      IJG license
 106
 107 nas                               (http://radscan.com/nas.html)
 108  - license:      NAS license
 109
 110 snapshot         libpng           (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/)
 111  - license:      PNG license
 112
 113 mngdec/mngenc   libmng          (http://gjuyn.xs4all.nl/libmng)
 114  - license       PNG license
 115
 116 Plugins using non-free libraries:
 117 osxaudio                                (http://www.apple.com/macosx/)
 118 sunaudiosink                            (http://www.sun.com/)
 119
 120 Unsure:
 121
 122 faad             libfaad          (http://www.audiocoding.com/)
 123 faad's license depends on its major version :
 124   - for FAAD1 : it is LGPL
 125   - for FAAD2 : it is GPL
 126 look at these pages for more information on licenses :
 127 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAD2
 128 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAC
 129
 130 by default, GStreamer faad plugin would compile against FAAD2 if available.
 131 it falls back to FAAD1 if not.