Add license files. LICENSE_readme moved here from core since it has info related to all the plugins.

Original commit message from CVS:
Add license files.  LICENSE_readme moved here from core since it has
info related to all the plugins.
Added common and m4 to the dist and strip out CVS files from dist.
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David I. Lehn 2002-07-04 19:32:52 +00:00
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/* GStreamer
* Copyright (C) <1999> Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu>
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Library General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/

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GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for details). Some of our plugins however rely on libraries which are available under i other licenses. This means that if you are using an applications which has a non-GPL compatible license, for instance a closed-source application with GStreamer you have to make sure not to use GPL linked plugins.
When using GPL linked plugins GStreamer is for all practical reasons under the GPL itself.
The plugins which use a GPL library are as follows:
cdparanoia libcdparanoia (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/)
aasink aalib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/)
xmms libxmms (http://www.xmms.org)
decdvd ac3dec,mpeg2dec (http://linuxvideo.org/mpeg2dec/,http://linuxvideo.org/ac3dec/)a
Plugins which use library a LGPL are as follows:
Colorspace Hermes (http://www.clanlib.org/hermes/)
httpsrc libghttp (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libghttp/)
alsasink alsa (http://alsa-project.org)
aRts aRts (http://arts-project.org)
sdlsink libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org)
gnomevfssource gnome-vfs (ftp.gnome.org//pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-vfs)
gnomevfssink gnome-vfs
esdsink libesd (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound)
icastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
lame libmp3lame (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/)
gst1394 libraw1394 (http://linux1394.sourceforge.net)
flac libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)
RTP ortp (http://www.linphone.org/ortp/)
Plugins which use a BSD covered library are as follows:
vorbisenc libogg/libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis)
vorbisdec libogg/libvorbis
Plugins based on libraries with other free licenses:
xsink libXv (MIT X11 / X Consortium license)
gsm libgsm (MIT license http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html)
Plugins using non-free libraries:
xamp3 decoder libxaudio (http://www.xaudio.com/)
wincodec win32ddl (http://divx.euro.ru/)

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DIST_SUBDIRS=gst-libs gst sys ext examples tools gconf ## testsuite
EXTRA_DIST=gst-plugins.spec depcomp AUTHORS COPYING README RELEASE ChangeLog autogen.sh
EXTRA_DIST=gst-plugins.spec depcomp \
AUTHORS COPYING README RELEASE LICENSE LICENSE_readme \
ChangeLog autogen.sh common m4
dist-hook:
rm -rf `find $(distdir)/common -name CVS`
rm -rf `find $(distdir)/m4 -name CVS`