On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:12:09PM -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > The GStreamer integration doesn't make sense without > > GStreamer - so we > > shouldn't build it when no GStreamer libs are available. > > > > Agreed. > > > We decided that configure without switches should be the > > default Apache build. OTOH we didn't agree on linking > > against lgpl libraries in the system in this default > > build, so I disabled GStreamer by default (as > > well as some other copyleft components - there is no > > difference in that regard between GStreamer and hunspell!). > > There is a *huge* difference here: Hunspell is MPL so we can > use it. LGPL is category X: we can't use Gstreamer at at. > > We can keep the MPL stuff around but anything GPL we should > consider extensions and move to apache-extras. The glue code > that we can relicense to AL2 we will, of course.
but we are talking here about the GStreamer *plugin*. Just like the gtk and kde VLC plugins, they have Oracle license, and they are in the software grant, this means they (will) have Apache License. If AOOo will build a vanilla Linux version it should be shipped with the gtk and kde plugins (no desktop integration is a no-go!). Following this argument, it should also ship the GStreamer integration (here going back to the Java Media Framework is a no-go!). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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