On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 07:43 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:48 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > >>Is there currently a distributor who is shipping Totem (or other > >>software with a similar exception) with a GPL incompatible plugin? Is > >>there a distributor who has specific plans to ship Rhythmbox with a GPL > >>incompatible plugin? > > > > Well, Novell didn't write Banshee under the MIT license just cause they > > didn't know what to spend money on :) Miguel also mentioned this in a > > blog recently. I know there are similar processes going on at many of > > the other distributions (ie. looking into adding support for non-free > > formats), but that is not for me to disclose any details on. Currently > > in the context of GStreamer that means Totem and Banshee as the shipable > > media players. Personally I would like to see RB being a possibility as > > it has a lot of nice features currently (love the DAAP support) and it > > also gives the non-mono distributions a great option. > > Interesting, Banshee is licensed under the MIT license and links to GPL > code.
What GPL code? > > It will not make you GPL incompatible (in the same way the LGPL isn't > > GPL incompatible) as you are not adding an extra restriction beyond the > > terms of the GPL. However if you do link to GPL code the value of this > > clause is of course nill. > > It seems to me that with this exception we can't link to, add, or derive > from any GPL code. Correct in the sense that if you want this exception to stay in force it has to cover all the code in question. > It is a slippery slope that for many has led to the abandonment of the > GPL altogether. True, Banshee choose to go with MIT instead, and we have gone with the LGPL for Pitivi. It is a question of what you want to accomplish with your licensing. Christian _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
