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author | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com> | 2021-09-19 00:55:34 +0100 |
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committer | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com> | 2021-10-18 18:03:19 +0100 |
commit | d4bdbeaa0da971c9dbc4cbf20e3f4476905e1961 (patch) | |
tree | 0d34f84c90f17aa283433a9650b7051a69c0e3f0 /README.md | |
parent | 95eb8672a61a315811c107021180371337be8cbc (diff) | |
download | gstreamer-d4bdbeaa0da971c9dbc4cbf20e3f4476905e1961.tar.gz |
meson: add 'gpl' option and only build plugins with (A)GPL deps if explicitly enabled
Require explicit opt-in to build plugins with (A)GPL dependencies.
Keep ugly/bad options on 'auto' for now so cerbero doesn't fail.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1084>
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@@ -129,6 +129,30 @@ the build files to find `libmfx`. The plugin will be automatically enabled if possible, but you can ensure it by passing `-Dbad=enabled -Dgst-plugins-bad:msdk=enabled` to `meson`. +### Building plugins with (A)GPL-licensed dependencies + +Some plugins have GPL- or AGPL-licensed dependencies and will only be built +if you have explicitly opted in to allow (A)GPL-licensed dependencies by +passing `-Dgpl=enabled` to Meson. + +List of plugins with (A)GPL-licensed dependencies (non-exhaustive) in gst-plugins-bad: + - dts (DTS audio decoder plugin) + - faad (Free AAC audio decoder plugin) + - iqa (Image quality assessment plugin based on dssim-c) + - mpeg2enc (MPEG-2 video encoder plugin) + - mplex (audio/video multiplexer plugin) + - ofa (Open Fingerprint Architecture library plugin) + - resindvd (Resin DVD playback plugin) + - x265 (HEVC/H.265 video encoder plugin) + +List of plugins with (A)GPL-licensed dependencies (non-exhaustive) in gst-plugins-ugly: + - a52dec (Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio decoder plugin) + - cdio (CD audio source plugin based on libcdio) + - dvdread (DVD video source plugin based on libdvdread) + - mpeg2dec (MPEG-2 video decoder plugin based on libmpeg2) + - sidplay (Commodore 64 audio decoder plugin based on libsidplay) + - x264 (H.264 video encoder plugin based on libx264) + ### Static build Since *1.18.0* when doing a static build using `--default-library=static`, a |