For those of you who have held back on working with Xuggle due to their restricting AGPL licence you can now breathe a sigh of relief and head on over to the xuggle site. The Xuggle team has released a new version named “Eliza” and ain’t she pretty! In addition to the release, they have slapped the good old LGPL license back on the packaging. What this means is that you can now use Xuggle 3.3 with your products without:
Instead, you can now freely use Xuggle 3.3 as you please. The only restriction that LGPL places on your project is that you must contribute back any code modifications to the source code of Xuggle. You should all be pretty familiar with this licensing model since it’s used with some of your most prized open source technologies such as Tomcat and your’s truly Red5! Many of you might remember that Xuggle 1.x was also licenced under LGPL, however starting with 2.x, the licence had been changed to AGPL. The news of LGPL is a big win for the Red5 community. Good to hear and I thank the Xuggle team for their contribution. So what are you waiting for, go get Xuggle 3.3 Eliza!