On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:05 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > Good summary. Was this meant for the list too?
Oops, sent to the list. > Interesting point about making the pipeline pluggable. I've also realised this means that things like using GStreamer to generate ReplayGain or MusicBrainz info would have to be done out-of-process. And so it would make writing plugins that do anything "interesting" with GStreamer more complex. > I do think we need to seriously consider some type of (DBUS) firewall to > help limit the effect of viral non-free licences in GST elements. > > It is also too bad that gstreamer did not consider this possibility when > doing their 0.10 redesign. It might have been nice to build in some > kind of license barrier into the plugin interface. I think that would probably require embedded an actual lawyer in GStreamer, as figuring it programmatically out may not be easy in many cases. Like in this case, where it's perfectly legal to /use/ Rhythmbox with the Fluendo MP3 decoder, just not distributing them together. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- If I ever saw an animated penguin with a speech bubble saying, "It looks like you're trying to edit fstab", I'd switch to BSD faster than a speeding Gentoo user. -- Paul Hudson _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
