2006-01-12, 11:00 PM
I was looking into some transcoding things and noticed the FFmpeg plugin in the gbpvr "Third Party" directory. FFMpeg is GPL'ed, but it seems that GB-PVR is using it via command line, which, according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html...ggregation, seems okay. However, Deinterlace only has the source included, which makes me wonder whether this code is included in GB-PVR, either built in or called as a library. If so, GB-PVR can only be released as GPL code, too. (GPL is pretty viral that way.) Also, I didn't see any plugins that indicated they were GPL, but if they were that also wouldn't be allowed with a closed-source GB-PVR (LGPL plugins should be, I think). I'm no expert, but I do have to deal with this stuff at work (Java developer), and it can be tricky, but a violation wouldn't be a good thing.