From 3b165b070d0db468b65a1694bbae0ad1ab343b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sebastian=20Dr=C3=B6ge?= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:42:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a COPYRIGHT file that describes the general copyright and license situation This follows the general approach of the Rust project. --- COPYRIGHT | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 COPYRIGHT diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3f4196c5d --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYRIGHT @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The gstreamer-rs project is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms, with +the exception of the sys crates which are licensed only under the terms of the +MIT license. + +Copyrights in the gstreamer-rs project are retained by their contributors. No +copyright assignment is required to contribute to the gstreamer-rs project. + +Some files include explicit copyright notices and/or license notices. For full +authorship information, see the version control history. + +Except as otherwise noted (below and/or in individual files), gstreamer-rs is +licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or + or the MIT license +or , at your option. + +All the sys crates (e.g. gstreamer/sys and gstreamer-base/sys) are licensed +only under the terms of the MIT license. + +This project provides interoperability with various GStreamer libraries but +doesn't distribute any parts of them. Distributing compiled libraries and +executables that link to those libraries may be subject to terms of the GNU +LGPL or other licenses. For more information check the license of each +GStreamer library.