From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:50:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs/faq/legal.xml: Update FAQ, Totem actually has an exception these days. X-Git-Tag: RELEASE-0_10_16~7 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=637128bf69ce4e6d316c337f2f43db0a9c4cf77d;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git docs/faq/legal.xml: Update FAQ, Totem actually has an exception these days. Original commit message from CVS: * docs/faq/legal.xml: Update FAQ, Totem actually has an exception these days. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 947881d..753c8eb6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-01-17 Thomas Vander Stichele + + * docs/faq/legal.xml: + Update FAQ, Totem actually has an exception these days. + 2008-01-14 Jan Schmidt * win32/common/libgstreamer.def: diff --git a/docs/faq/legal.xml b/docs/faq/legal.xml index 6705a5e..5ec56fd 100644 --- a/docs/faq/legal.xml +++ b/docs/faq/legal.xml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ by the FSF lawyer team and verified by FSF lawyer and law professor Eben Moglen. Can someone distribute the combination of GStreamer, the LGPL library - Totem, a GPL playback application + MyPlayer, a GPL playback application The binary-only Sorenson decoder together in one distribution/operating system ? If not, what @@ -30,20 +30,24 @@ needs to be changed to make this possible ? -This would be a problem, because the GStreamer and Totem licenses would -forbid it. In order to link GStreamer to Totem, you need to use section +This would be a problem, because the GStreamer and MyPlayer licenses would +forbid it. In order to link GStreamer to MyPlayer, you need to use section 3 of the LGPL to convert GStreamer to GPL. The GPL version of GStreamer -forbids linking to the Sorenson decoder. Anyway, the Totem GPL +forbids linking to the Sorenson decoder. Anyway, the MyPlayer GPL license forbids this. -If the authors of Totem want to permit this, we have an +If the authors of MyPlayer want to permit this, we have an exception for them: the controlled interface exception from the FAQ. The idea of this is that you can't get around the GPL just by including a LGPL bit in the middle. + +Note: MyPlayer is a completely fictituous application at the time of writing. + +