Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox licencing

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:56 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> > There was a short discussion on the list, but it petered out because it
> > became apparent that no-one was actually planning to ship the plugin at
> > that time.
>
> The discussion seems to have finished again, so we should really do
> something if we are going to relicence.
>
> The general consensus appear to be in favour of re-licencing to GPL with
> an exception for GStreamer plugins, and the only objection I think I've
> heard being that it would mean we can't "borrow" code from other GPL'd
> projects without getting permission to re-licence.

Do we have any idea whether relicensing to GPL+exception would be 
acceptable to the Red Hat lawyers and actually solve the immediate problem?

Jon