A few URL additions to the REQUIREMENTS file

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2001-01-06 Christian Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org>
* A few URL additions to the REQUIREMENTS file
* LICENCE readme containing licensing details on our plugins
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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/)
lame libmp3lame (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/)
icastsend libshout (http://www.icecast.org)
aasink aalib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/)
gst1394 libraw1394 (http://linux1394.sourceforge.net)
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)
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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http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
decss (for the dvdsrc)
huh, I don't know, sorry (FIXME)
libesound (for the esd sink)
libesound (for the esd sink
ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound)
gnome-vfs (for the gnome-vfs src)
libgsm (for the gsm plugin)
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html