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faq: general: improve license section

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@ -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 <plugin name>
```
## Is GStreamer a sound server?