Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin in Main for Dapper?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Stephan Hermann">

> So, actually we could ship this plugin in multiverse, but it is the same
> problem as when we stay with the mad plugin for gstreamer. 

No, a much better situation - read GPL section 7 and then think about the
libmad problem again. :-)

> Regarding shipping this plugin in our main repositories (main or
> restricted) would make Ubuntu _the_ free distribution which rocks and
> dances most.

We can't ship it in main.

> And, what if we build the binary from the source, which is MIT license, is
> the license of the resulting binary (after signing the contract with
> Fluendo) as well MIT licensed, or is it again not MIT?

The MIT license covers the source code.

- Jeff

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