From: Stéphane Loeuillet Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:36:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: - clarify (i hope) faad and faac plugin licencing X-Git-Tag: 1.19.3~511^2~13733 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=591ecd483ab1e4277024496bb1a7e51c0c8b7afb;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git - clarify (i hope) faad and faac plugin licencing Original commit message from CVS: - clarify (i hope) faad and faac plugin licencing - move flac from LGPL to Xiph BSD like license (new license since 1.1.1) - add URL for taking (their SVN repository) - add version to required libsidplay (siddec won't compile against anything but 1.36.x) --- diff --git a/LICENSE_readme b/LICENSE_readme index e99b03d5fe..a965f3347a 100644 --- a/LICENSE_readme +++ b/LICENSE_readme @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ mad libmad (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/) mpeg2dec libmpeg2 (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/) mpeg2enc libmpeg2enc (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/) mplex libmplex (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/) -siddec libsidplay (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/, +siddec libsidplay 1.36 (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/) trm libmusicbrainz (http://www.musicbrainz.org/) xine libxine (http://xinehq.de/) @@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ cacasink libcaca (http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/) colorspacelcs libcolorspace dvdec libdv (http://libdv.sourceforge.net/) esdmon,esdsink libesd (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/) +faac libfaac (http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/) fameenc libfame (http://fame.sourceforge.net/) ffmpeg ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) -flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) gdkpixbuf GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/) gnomevfs gnome-vfs (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs/) gst_arts aRts (http://arts-project.org/) @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ sdlvideosink libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org/) shout2send libshout2 (http://www.icecast.org) smoothwave swfdec (http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/) -tarkin +tarkin (http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/tarkin/) textoverlay pango (http://www.pango.org/) Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows: @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ ogg libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/) vorbis libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/) gsttheora libtheora (http://www.theora.org/) speex (http://www.speex.org/) +flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses: @@ -121,11 +122,16 @@ mikmod libmikmod (http://mikmod.raphnet.net/) Seems a newer release of mikmod is LGPL, though it's listed as GPL by GStreamer. -faac libfaac (http://www.audiocoding.com/download.php) faad libfaad (http://www.audiocoding.com/) -Faad/faac seems to be under a commercial license. Plus licensing seems -to be different if using FAAD or FAAD2 as the underlying library. Not -sure how this should be described here or handled in gst-inspect. +faad's license depends on its major version : + - for FAAD1 : it is LGPL + - for FAAD2 : it is GPL +look at these pages for more information on licenses : +http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAD2 +http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAC + +by default, GStreamer faad plugin would compile against FAAD2 if available. +it falls back to FAAD1 if not. dirac (http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/) The sourceforge website claims it uses GPL, LGPL, and the Mozilla Public @@ -135,4 +141,3 @@ inherited. effectv effectv (http://effectv.sourceforge.net/) The sourceforge website claims it uses GPL, though it is currently listed as an LGPL library in GStreamer. -