2 Disclaimer: The GStreamer team makes a real effort to make sure that
3 the information in this file is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.
4 However, this file may contain errors and omissions. Some dependant
5 libraries change their licensing from version-to-version and some of
6 the libraries listed here as LGPL were under the GPL license in
7 older releases. Distributions which include GStreamer are responsible
8 for ensuring that plugins are used in accordance with licensing terms
9 and other laws.
11 GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for details).
12 Some of our plugins however rely on libraries which are available under other
13 licenses. This means that if you are using an application which has a non-GPL
14 compatible license, for instance a closed-source application with GStreamer
15 you have to make sure not to use GPL linked or derived plugins. When using
16 GPL linked plugins GStreamer is for all practical reasons under the GPL itself.
18 The plugins which use a GPL library are as follows:
20 a52dec liba52 (http://liba52.sourceforge.net/)
21 aasink aalib (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/)
22 dtsdec libdts (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
23 dxr3 (http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/)
24 icecastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
25 mad libmad (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/)
26 mpeg2dec libmpeg2 (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/)
27 mpeg2enc libmpeg2enc (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
28 mplex libmplex (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
29 siddec libsidplay 1.36 (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/,
30 http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/)
31 trm libmusicbrainz (http://www.musicbrainz.org/)
32 xine libxine (http://xinehq.de/)
33 xvid libxvidcore (http://www.xvid.org/)
35 Plugins derived from GPL code are as follows:
37 dvdreadsrc libdvdread (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/)
38 jack libjack (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/)
39 Note libjack is LGPL, but plugin is GPL.
40 monoscope None (Algorithm by Ralph Loader, Joerg Walter,
41 Richard Boulton, and Andy Lo A Foe)
42 rtjpeg None (Erik Walthinsen's algorithm)
43 rtp None (http://www.linphone.org/ortp/)
44 synaesthesia (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/synaesthesia)
45 system_encode None (Algorithm by Chrisoph Moar, Wim Tayman's and
46 Erik Walthinsen)
47 vbidec None (Algorithm by Billy Biggs, Doug Bell,
48 Erik Walthinsen and David I. Lehn)
50 Plugins which use a LGPL library are as follows:
52 alsa alsa (http://alsa-project.org/)
53 artsdsink aRts (http://arts-project.org/)
54 cacasink libcaca (http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/)
55 colorspacelcs libcolorspace
56 dvdec libdv (http://libdv.sourceforge.net/)
57 esdmon,esdsink libesd (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/)
58 faac libfaac (http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/)
59 fameenc libfame (http://fame.sourceforge.net/)
60 ffmpeg ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/)
61 gdkpixbuf GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/)
62 gnomevfs gnome-vfs (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs/)
63 gst_arts aRts (http://arts-project.org/)
64 gst1394 libraw1394 (http://www.linux1394.org/)
65 gstaf libaudiofile (http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/)
66 gstsf libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/)
67 hermescolorspace Hermes (http://www.clanlib.org/hermes/)
68 kio KDE (http://www.kde.org/)
69 ladspa (http://www.ladspa.org/)
70 lame libmp3lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/)
71 libvisual libvisual (http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/)
72 matroska (http://www.matroska.org/)
73 mikmod libmikmod (http://mikmod.raphnet.net/)
74 ossaudio (http://www.opensound.com/)
75 qcamsrc
76 rfbenc librfb
77 sdlvideosink libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org/)
78 shout2send libshout2 (http://www.icecast.org)
79 smoothwave
80 swfdec (http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/)
81 tarkin (http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/tarkin/)
82 textoverlay pango (http://www.pango.org/)
83 dirac (http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/)
84 effectv (Our ports was relicensed)(http://effectv.sourceforge.net/)
85 musepack (http://www.musepack.net/)
87 Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows:
89 ogg libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
90 vorbis libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/)
91 gsttheora libtheora (http://www.theora.org/)
92 speex (http://www.speex.org/)
93 flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
95 Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses:
97 ximagesink libXv
98 xvimagesink libXv
99 - license: MIT X11 / X Consortium license
101 gsm libgsm
102 - license MIT license http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
104 festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/)
105 - license: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/freecopyright.shtml
107 jpeg (http://www.ijg.org/)
108 - license: IJG license
110 nas (http://radscan.com/nas.html)
111 - license: NAS license
113 snapshot libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/)
114 - license: PNG license
116 mngdec/mngenc libmng (http://gjuyn.xs4all.nl/libmng)
117 - license PNG license
119 Plugins using non-free libraries:
120 divxdec, divxenc (http://www.divx.com/)
121 osxaudio (http://www.apple.com/macosx/)
122 sunaudiosink (http://www.sun.com/)
124 Unsure:
126 faad libfaad (http://www.audiocoding.com/)
127 faad's license depends on its major version :
128 - for FAAD1 : it is LGPL
129 - for FAAD2 : it is GPL
130 look at these pages for more information on licenses :
131 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAD2
132 http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=FAAC
134 by default, GStreamer faad plugin would compile against FAAD2 if available.
135 it falls back to FAAD1 if not.