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+GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for details). Some of our plugins however rely on libraries which are available under i other licenses. This means that if you are using an applications which has a non-GPL compatible license, for instance a closed-source application with GStreamer you have to make sure not to use GPL linked plugins.
+When using GPL linked plugins GStreamer is for all practical reasons under the GPL itself.
+
+The plugins which use a GPL library are as follows:
+cdparanoia libcdparanoia (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/)
+lame libmp3lame (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/)
+icastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
+aasink aalib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/)
+gst1394 libraw1394 (http://linux1394.sourceforge.net)
+xmms libxmms (http://www.xmms.org)
+decdvd ac3dec,mpeg2dec (http://linuxvideo.org/mpeg2dec/,http://linuxvideo.org/ac3dec/)a
+
+Plugins which use library a LGPL are as follows:
+Colorspace Hermes (http://www.clanlib.org/hermes/)
+httpsrc libghttp (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libghttp/)
+alsasink alsa (http://alsa-project.org)
+aRts aRts (http://arts-project.org)
+sdlsink libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org)
+gnomevfssource gnome-vfs (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs)
+gnomevfssink gnome-vfs
+esdsink libesd (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound)
+
+Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows:
+vorbisenc libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis)
+vorbisdec libogg/libvorbis
+
+Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses:
+xsink libXv (MIT X11 / X Consortium license)
+gsm libgsm (MIT license http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html)
+
+Plugins using non-free libraries:
+xamp3 decoder libxaudio (http://www.xaudio.com/)
+wincodec win32ddl (http://divx.euro.ru/)
+
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
decss (for the dvdsrc)
huh, I don't know, sorry (FIXME)
-libesound (for the esd sink)
+libesound (for the esd sink
+ ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound)
gnome-vfs (for the gnome-vfs src)
libgsm (for the gsm plugin)
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html