Re: GnomeMeeting / OpenH323 [Was: 2.4 Module List]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:

> A couple of things here. First of all GStreamer is maintaining a API
> stable 0.6 series just for GNOME atm, with 0.6.2 coming out any day now.
> But correct enough we have not commited to a stable API until GNOME goes
> 3.0.
>  
One other difference between OpenH323 and GStreamer is that we will 
almost certainly never push it down into the development platform, while 
I would hope that a media framework would be.  This is due to the 
licensing of the H.323 stack.

OpenH323 is distributed under the MPL, which is incompatible with the 
GPL (but not LGPL), which is probably against our licensing policies.

This is no problem for Gnome Meeting (Damien is giving you permission 
implicitly) but does mean that it can't easily swipe code from other 
GPL'd packages.  Having openh323 in the desktop release (as a dependency 
of one of the other packages) doesn't sound too bad though.

James.

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