On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 16:51 +0200, Martin Sandsmark wrote: > > Gstreamer remains the easiest and safest way to avoid patent issues > > by > > only shipping the plugins you want. > > How so? It also has modules linking to the various libraries that > contain > patented methods, and also has a module for libav/ffmpeg, same as > VLC. > So don't ship the plugins that can cause legal issues. Gstreamer is simply easier for packagers. VLC isn't. The plugins that don't live up to coding standards or can cause legal issues are packaged separately upstream as gst-plugins-bad and gst -plugins-ugly (in addition to gst-libav).
Packagers will have to manually separate VLC into core library, ui stuff and plugins into different packages. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
