Re: [Banshee-devel-list] Equalizer for GStreamer

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

No, that code cannot be used unless it is relicensed. The GPL is not
compatible with MIT X11 - it's way too conservative. You can use MIT
code in GPL projects, but not the other way around. MIT is practically
public domain with copyright retention.

If it were LGPL, it'd be easier to work with. Why it's not LGPL, I don't
know. That's a pretty poor decision considering the nature of the code
(a plugin/library).

--Aaron


On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 14:33 +0000, Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently found out that the old GStreamer equalizer bit has been
> successfully ported to the new gstreamer. The code is here:
> 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/engine/gst10/equalizer/
> 
> Can this code be reused for the purpose of completing the equalizer?
> (helix and my xine backends already have support and most of the gui
> code is in svn).
> 
> The issue is the license - GPL2, whereas libbanshee is MIT. May be
> this can be ported to a separate libgstequalizer GPL2 licensed
> library?
> 
> I've done a bit of research and writing an equalization from scratch
> seems to be very nasty. May be it's the reason why the code above is a
> port of the old gst element and the old gst equalizer is actually a
> port of the xmms equalization code. Most of the code I found on the
> net was based on the xmms equalization code as well. :-)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,