On Apr 15, 8:57 am, Benjamin Smedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stevel wrote:
> > Not just Songbird... but can a third party (e.g. a distributor such as
> > Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSolaris, etc. etc.) distribute Songbird alongside
> > Flash.
>
> IANAL, again ;-)
>
> But yes... they are distributing flash and songbird as two separate
> programs. The fact that songbird goes looking for a flash plugin and loads
> it is incidental to the licensing.

(not trying to flog the thread more, but...)

... I'm not sure that it is incidental.  The GStreamer folks seem to
see it as intimately involving the license, as does the FSF's GPL
FAQ.  Sigh.  I suppose it's time to drag the lawyers in, and maybe
just add the exception to Songbird's GPL license to be safe.

Thanks for the comments/thoughts!
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