Can we use gstreamer bad, ugly and ffmpeg packages ( installed using binary rpms) without any legal problems

[praveenya kumar]

Hi

 

Sorry If I am posting in wrong list.

We are using centos 5.3 Operating system. It comes with basic gstreamer setup including gstreamer, gstreamer-tools, gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good packages. To support different media formats we had to install gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg from third party repository like rpmfusion as centos repository is not providing these packages. My question is, Can we use these packages ( bad, ugly and ffmpeg) without any legal or licensing issues? If not, Please tell the legal way of using them.

thanks
G Praveenya

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[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Wednesday 20 October 2010 15:32:47, praveenya kumar wrote:

[...]

> My question is, Can we

> use these packages ( bad, ugly and ffmpeg) without any legal or licensing

> issues? If not, Please tell the legal way of using them.

That depends quite a lot on which plugins you use, and what you want to do with them.

* If you want to link GStreamer with proprietary software and don't want to distribute your source, you don't only have to look at the GStreamer license (GPL), but also that of supporting libraries (e.g. codec libraries). In particular, ffmpeg (and therefore gst-ffmpeg) is GPL.

* If you use plugins from -ugly, look very carefully at which plugins you use. It may have licensing difficulties, but more often it has patent difficulties. In particular, mp3, H.264, and AC3 will give you trouble. Fluendo sells a set of GStreamer plugins with proper patent licenses.

* Plugins from -bad have the same status as these from -good, they're just not of the same quality.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Arnout

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