Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Philippe:

> As Luis said I'm not against relicencing the library (and even the whole 
> of brasero). It's just I wasn't aware of the issue at stake since I 
> don't care much about licencing (which turns out to be a mistake).
> Regarding libbrasero-media, it shouldn't take long as I wrote all of the 
> code but the two backends for :
> - FreeBSD but the copyright holder agreed to the licence change
> - OpenSolaris and I'm waiting for the answer.
> Given the size of the latter file, I can easily rewrite it if need be 
> but I don't think it'll be necessary.
>
> A few questions:
> - is using the same licence and wording as rhythmbox OK?

If Brasero uses GStreamer plugins directly, then GPL+exception would be
good for the the Brasero application.

LGPL seems a better choice for libraries that are intended to be used by
multiple applications.  If you use LGPL, for such libraries an exception
is not needed.

Brian