The gstreamer third way

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 11 19:12:53 UTC 2007


Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora <at> nicubunu.ro> writes:
> No. The ugly gstreamer plugins don't have a license problem, but a 
> patents problem and this problem apply only on certain parts of the 
> world, there are other parts where they are perfectly fine from any 
> point of view.

Yet third-party repositories are happily distributing proprietary kmod-nvidia 
modules linked against the GPLv2 kernel, which isn't any more legal than 
distributing a GPLv2 kio_smb linked against a GPLv3 Samba would be.

        Kevin Kofler




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