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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

Re: Helix Player to be GPL'd

Submitted by Theo on Mon, 2004-06-28 09:27.

Well, I tend to agree with you. In this case we already have GStreamer, which is a feature-complete multimedia framework very much like Helix with more features and a well thought-about design. And on top of that, it is LGPL'd instead of GPL'd.

Now, I have had my share of problems with GStreamer in the past, but it's rapidly getting more stable and complete. Why would the open source community rally behind yet another new framework which supports less formats?

GStreamer is here, right now, available for everyone to use in whichever way they would like. (see the Fluendo article). Helix still has to get there.

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