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+/* GStreamer
+ * Copyright (C) <1999> Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * Library General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the
+ * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ */
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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/)
+aasink aalib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/)
+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)
+icastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
+lame libmp3lame (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/)
+gst1394 libraw1394 (http://linux1394.sourceforge.net)
+flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)
+RTP ortp (http://www.linphone.org/ortp/)
+
+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/)
+
DIST_SUBDIRS=gst-libs gst sys ext examples tools gconf ## testsuite
-EXTRA_DIST=gst-plugins.spec depcomp AUTHORS COPYING README RELEASE ChangeLog autogen.sh
+EXTRA_DIST=gst-plugins.spec depcomp \
+ AUTHORS COPYING README RELEASE LICENSE LICENSE_readme \
+ ChangeLog autogen.sh common m4
+
+dist-hook:
+ rm -rf `find $(distdir)/common -name CVS`
+ rm -rf `find $(distdir)/m4 -name CVS`