Re: GNOME-media on the road to 2.4.0

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 23:57, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Well we have two non-free plugins currently for GStreamer that 
>     I know of. One for the Shorten audio format and one for the Monkey's
>     audio format. Both of them is free beer with source however. 
> 
> I am not really sure what that means.  Are they free software?
> If so, what licenses do they have?
No, as said the are non-free meaning they are not free software. One has
a 'you can do whatever you want with it as long as you don't earn money'
license as far as I recall, the other has a 'mail me to get permission
to do something, and I always give it' license.

Christian