| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows: |
| vorbisenc libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis) |
| vorbisdec libogg/libvorbis |
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| 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) |
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| Plugins using non-free libraries: |
| xamp3 decoder libxaudio (http://www.xaudio.com/) |
| wincodec win32ddl (http://divx.euro.ru/) |
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