Re: [xine-devel] Use of Xine code

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

Hi Christian,

I must admit i fail to understand how xine sources can be of use to
GStreamer codebase. Of course i know very little about GStreamer, except
for a few buzzwords like frameworks, graphs, pipelines in xmls! ;)

ok, now serious... xine has a core which provides functionality most
likely to be already provided by GStreamer architecture: plugin loading,
data comunication and pipelining, clocking, configuration. I don't see
how would they be of much use to you.

codecs plugins are mostly third party GPL or LGPL projects with a bit of
xine "glue". I guess you won't be interested in those either (you will
need to contact the project authors directly).

input plugins and demuxers are somewhat tied to xine architecture. some
may be derived from other projects and some have being entirely created
by team members, and in this case you might want to port them to
GStreamer.

so i think you first need provide some specific example of what do you
want to port to GStreamer. then we can ask the code owners if they agree
in licensing their code under LGPL. 

IMHO, relicensing the entire xine tree under LGPL would be a very
difficult thing to do since you would need to ask *everybody* who
contributed...

regards,

Miguel

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 11:52, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Hi Xine developers,
> My name is Christian Schaller and I am with the GStreamer project
> (http://www.gstreamer.net).  We are in the process of adding new plugins
> to GStreamer in order to handle more media types. Most of the best
> available code for this is currently in Xine which leads us to want to
> base many of these plugins on Xine code. However GStreamer is licensed
> under the LGPL and due to that we would prefer as many as possible of
> our plugins to use that license too. Due to this I wonder if you people
> would be kind enough to let us use your code as part of LGPL plugins as
> opposed to GPL plugins?
> 
> I know that much of your code has originated from other projects in turn
> so I would need permission from them too, but I thought I start with you
> guys. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Christian
> 
> btw. Xine rocks, even if I am working on GStreamer I still use Xine for
> a lot of my own media playback due to its superior media support atm.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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