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Helix Player to be GPL'd

Submitted by robla on Mon, 2004-06-28 02:11. Gnome Multimedia
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RealNetworks will be releasing the Helix Player under tri-license terms which will include the GPL in the next 30 days, thanks in no small part to the folks at Novell and Red Hat who pushed hard to make this happen. In very closely related news, Novell and Red Hat are both standardizing on the Helix Player as the standard media player on their commercial distrubutions. Details on all of this are available in the press releases (Real and Novell, Real and Red Hat), as well as this piece in the New York Times. Source code can be downloaded from the Helix Community

Helix: no GPL media platform

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-06-28 05:28.

As you can see on the PR and on the Helix site they will only release the player as GPL, that means:

- No GPLed Helix Producer.

- No GPLed Helix Server.

- No GPLed RealVideo/Audio codeds.

So in the end this is just a very big PIECE OF MARKETING CRAP. Real has changed the minimum necesary for that PR and for including a piece of "Real" branded material on RedHat/Novell linuxes.

We don't need Helix, we don't need Real. We have gstreamer and Vorbis/Theora.

Nothing to see here please move along.

Miguel A. Arévalo

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