On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:57:55PM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > So don't ship the plugins that can cause legal issues. > Gstreamer is simply easier for packagers. VLC isn't.
It is very easy to build VLC without including libraries you can't ship for whatever reasons (for example because of software patents). Just build VLC on a system which only the libraries that are okay to ship. Because these problematic distros already ship gstreamer, I assume they've already vetted the multimedia libraries they have available. > Packagers will have to manually separate VLC into core library, ui > stuff and plugins into different packages. Why? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
