[arch-general] GStreamer packages

Thijs Vermeir thijsvermeir at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 11:51:29 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:09:45PM +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:42:36PM +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:31:05PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:06 +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > 
> > > First of all, I will change gstreamer to use the split package
> > > possibilities that pacman 3.3 gives us.
> > > Second, you can't relicense this to LGPL only, the cdparanoia plugin
> > > links to cdparanoia, which is GPL. This makes the plugin GPL also.
> > 
> > Apparently the GStreamer community asked [1] to cdparanoia developers to
> > change the license to support LGPL, as this is the license used in
> > core/base/good. This is from release 10.1 and we are using 10.2, so I
> > think it is fine to say now that base is fully LGPL compatible now.
> > 
> > [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/08/07/cdparanoia-now-lgpl-v2/
> 
> Are you making any progress with the GStreamer packages ? Don't want
> to put you under pressure :-) but there are some new upstream packages
> that depend on the newer upstream gstreamer versions (like pitivi). Or
> is it possible to have the unsplit updated packages like the ones I
> send, until the new split packages are ready?

ping again,
The number of packages depending on newer gstreamer is rising (like:
gnome-dvb-daemon in aur).


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