From 53ec57d6be2d55232b4c1793c1c8a8f9d2360458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:10:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] faq: general: improve license section Drop reference to nonexistent LINCENSE_Readme file Drop confusing reference to unclear future behavior --- markdown/frequently-asked-questions/general.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/markdown/frequently-asked-questions/general.md b/markdown/frequently-asked-questions/general.md index 2cee01ecf1..c794647fa5 100644 --- a/markdown/frequently-asked-questions/general.md +++ b/markdown/frequently-asked-questions/general.md @@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ however under the GPL, which means that those plugins can not be used by a non-GPL-compatible application. Those are few and far between though and there are usually non-GPL alternatives available for those GPL libraries. -As part of the GStreamer source download you find a file called -LICENSE\_readme in gst-plugins package. That file contains information -in the exact licensing terms of the libraries we use. As a general rule, -GStreamer aims at using only LGPL or BSD licensed libraries if available -and only use GPL or proprietary libraries where no good LGPL or BSD +As a general rule, GStreamer aims at using only LGPL or BSD licensed +libraries and only use GPL or proprietary libraries when no good LGPL or BSD alternatives are available. -You can see the effective license of a plugin as license field in -`gst-inspect-1.0`. In the future we might have the application enforce a -stricter policy (much like tainting in the kernel). +You can see the effective license of a plugin as the **License** field in +the output of the following command: + +``` +gst-inspect-1.0 +``` ## Is GStreamer a sound server?