From kde-multimedia Fri Jan 07 16:12:01 2005 From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:12:01 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: GStreamer licensing policy and advisory Message-Id: <1105114321.3318.20.camel () localhost ! localdomain> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=110511422916756 Hi GNOME and KDE multimedia developers. After some emails back and forth with Richard Stallman I have written down a licensing policy document which eventually will be put onto the GStreamer website and into the GStreamer Application Developers Guide. The document explains GStreamer's licensing policy in regards to plugins, but maybe more important for people on these lists it contains an advisory on licensing choice for application developers. I am sending this mail here to get feedback both on the general content of the advisory and some reactions from developers of applications using GStreamer as the advisory is largely targeted at them. Sent the document to the GStreamer devel list a few days ago and have not gotten any negative feedback yet, either on list or on. But it might of course still be changes coming due to feedback from my fellow GStreamer hackers. You find the current draft here: http://www.linuxrising.org/files/licensing.html I would like to point out that the license interpretation statement linked to from the advisory is very preliminary. I have not had a lawyer read through it yet to verify its content for correctness. It is based upon a suggestion from Lawrence Rosen and a similar document he did for the jboss group. My plan is to both send the finished statement to Rosen in the hope he would be willing to review it, but I will also try to send it to the Debian Legal list for input in the hope for finding people with the right knowledge to give me feedback. If there are anyone on these lists reading it who are knowledgeable in copyright law and can give me input I would love to have it. General political and practical feedback on both advisory and statement is of course also welcome. Christian _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia