Back in October I blogged about ST Ericsson hooking gstreamer into Android but apparently making that code proprietary. I may have been a bit opinionated at the time. The reasons for not disclosing the code allegedly were that it is assumed to be of no general use. However, it still felt very bad that two Free Software projects are interacting with each other through a proprietary layer.
I've since had a very pleasant contact with the Head of MeeGo Business Development at ST-Ericsson and they have now released and submitted the respective code-bases, like the gst-android git repository and the Audioflinger sink in the gst-plugins-bad repository as well as Android makefiles for all parts of gstreamer.
It is great to see this kind of development, and see that ST-Ericsson is trying hard to do the right thing: Not only releasing their extensions of gstreamer under a GPL-compatible license to their customers, but even actively pushing those changes upstream. Thanks to everyone involved, particularly Andrea Gallo and Benjamin Gaignard.