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Helix Player to be GPL'd

Submitted by robla on Mon, 2004-06-28 02:11. Gnome Multimedia

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

Cut out the PR, what's actually happening?

Submitted by arvindn on Mon, 2004-06-28 10:07.

Specifically, Red Hat and Novell will standardize on the 100% open source Helix Player as the leading multimedia framework for their Linux desktops.

Apart from the fact that calling something "100% open source" makes it look like suspicious buzzword mongering to me, the statement contradicts itself. Are they standardizing on the player or the framework? The player is not the framework. The framework (server, codecs etc), AFAICT are not being GPL'd. If RH and Novell want to ship hxplay with their distros, that's great. But they'd better not ignore gstreamer and go reinvent the wheel. That makes no sense. I guess we'll have to wait until RH people speak out to figure out what's actually going to happen.

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