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
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.
18 The plugins which use a GPL library are as follows:
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 icecastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
27 mad libmad (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/)
28 mpeg2dec libmpeg2 (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/)
29 mpeg2enc libmpeg2enc (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
30 mplex libmplex (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
31 siddec libsidplay 1.36 (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/,
32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/)
33 trm libmusicbrainz (http://www.musicbrainz.org/)
34 xine libxine (http://xinehq.de/)
35 xvid libxvidcore (http://www.xvid.org/)
37 Plugins derived from GPL code are as follows:
39 dvdreadsrc libdvdread (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/)
40 monoscope None (Algorithm by Ralph Loader, Joerg Walter,
41 Richard Boulton, and Andy Lo A Foe)
42 rtjpeg None (Erik Walthinsen's algorithm)
43 rtp None (http://www.linphone.org/ortp/)
44 synaesthesia (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/synaesthesia)
45 system_encode None (Algorithm by Chrisoph Moar, Wim Tayman's and
47 vbidec None (Algorithm by Billy Biggs, Doug Bell,
48 Erik Walthinsen and David I. Lehn)
50 Plugins which use a LGPL library are as follows:
52 alsa alsa (http://alsa-project.org/)
53 artsdsink aRts (http://arts-project.org/)
54 cacasink libcaca (http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/)
55 colorspacelcs libcolorspace
56 dvdec libdv (http://libdv.sourceforge.net/)
57 esdmon,esdsink libesd (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/)
58 faac libfaac (http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/)
59 fameenc libfame (http://fame.sourceforge.net/)
60 ffmpeg ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/)
61 gdkpixbuf GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/)
62 gnomevfs gnome-vfs (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs/)
63 gst_arts aRts (http://arts-project.org/)
64 gst1394 libraw1394 (http://www.linux1394.org/)
65 gstaf libaudiofile (http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/)
66 gstsf libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/)
67 kio KDE (http://www.kde.org/)
68 ladspa (http://www.ladspa.org/)
69 lame libmp3lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/)
70 libvisual libvisual (http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/)
71 matroska (http://www.matroska.org/)
72 mikmod libmikmod (http://mikmod.raphnet.net/)
73 ossaudio (http://www.opensound.com/)
76 sdlvideosink libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org/)
77 shout2send libshout2 (http://www.icecast.org)
79 swfdec (http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/)
80 tarkin (http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/tarkin/)
81 textoverlay pango (http://www.pango.org/)
82 dirac (http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/)
83 effectv (Our ports was relicensed)(http://effectv.sourceforge.net/)
84 musepack (http://www.musepack.net/)
85 kate libtiger (http://libtiger.googlecode.com/)
86 Optional, only for the tiger element
88 Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows:
90 ogg libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
91 vorbis libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
92 gsttheora libtheora (http://www.theora.org/)
93 speex (http://www.speex.org/)
94 flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
95 kate libkate (http://libkate.googlecode.com/)
97 Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses:
101 - license: MIT X11 / X Consortium license
104 - license MIT license http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
106 festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/)
107 - license: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/freecopyright.shtml
109 jpeg (http://www.ijg.org/)
110 - license: IJG license
112 nas (http://radscan.com/nas.html)
113 - license: NAS license
115 snapshot libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/)
116 - license: PNG license
118 mngdec/mngenc libmng (http://gjuyn.xs4all.nl/libmng)
119 - license PNG license
121 Plugins using non-free libraries:
122 osxaudio (http://www.apple.com/macosx/)
123 sunaudiosink (http://www.sun.com/)
127 faad libfaad (http://www.audiocoding.com/)
128 faad's license depends on its major version :
129 - for FAAD1 : it is LGPL
130 - for FAAD2 : it is GPL
131 look at these pages for more information on licenses :
132 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAD2
133 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAC
135 by default, GStreamer faad plugin would compile against FAAD2 if available.
136 it falls back to FAAD1 if not.