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<header id="title-block-header">
<h1 class="title">live555 unofficial archive and mirror</h1>
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<nav id="TOC" role="doc-toc">
<ul>
<li><a href="#how-to-use-it" id="toc-how-to-use-it">How to use
it?</a></li>
<li><a href="#frequently-ask-questions"
id="toc-frequently-ask-questions">Frequently Ask Questions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#why-was-this-project-created"
id="toc-why-was-this-project-created">Why was this project
created?</a></li>
<li><a href="#are-the-tarballs-authentic"
id="toc-are-the-tarballs-authentic">Are the tarballs authentic?</a></li>
<li><a href="#is-it-legal-to-redistribute-the-archives"
id="toc-is-it-legal-to-redistribute-the-archives">Is it legal to
redistribute the archives?</a></li>
<li><a href="#what-is-the-expected-audience-of-the-mirror"
id="toc-what-is-the-expected-audience-of-the-mirror">What is the
expected audience of the mirror?</a></li>
<li><a href="#can-i-use-this-site-as-a-tarball-mirror"
id="toc-can-i-use-this-site-as-a-tarball-mirror">Can I use this site as
a tarball mirror?</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#contributions-and-questions"
id="toc-contributions-and-questions">Contributions and
Questions</a></li>
<li><a href="#prior-art" id="toc-prior-art">Prior Art</a></li>
<li><a href="#imprint" id="toc-imprint">Imprint</a></li>
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<p>This project is an unofficial archive and mirror of the source code
of the <a href="http://live555.com/liveMedia/">LIVE555 Streaming Media
libraries</a>. It collects the source tarballs released on the server <a
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you have to trust them.</p>
<p>But the code is open source. Inspecting the code is always
possible.</p>
<h3 id="is-it-legal-to-redistribute-the-archives">Is it legal to
redistribute the archives?</h3>
<p>Yes, it’s legal. The original author released the live555 source code
under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html">GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)</a>. This makes it free software
and redistributing the source code is allowed. See also the FAQ entry:
<a
href="http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#copyright-and-license">What
is the copyright on the source code, and how is it licensed? What are my
obligations under this license?</a></p>
<p>And the original author also explicitly stats that other websites may
keep older archives and redistribute them.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I’m not ‘hiding’ older versions; I’m just not putting them on our web
site. (Because this is ope source, other people, if they wish, may keep
copies of older versions, but I’m not.) […]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>See <a
href="http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2011-November/014131.html">[Live-devel]
older source archives</a>.</p>
<h3 id="what-is-the-expected-audience-of-the-mirror">What is the
expected audience of the mirror?</h3>
<p>The expected audience of this website are</p>
<ul>
<li>security researches and</li>
<li>open source package maintainers</li>
</ul>
<p>Security researches should be able to inspect the source code of
older live555 releases, e.g. when they investigate an insecure hardware
device that ships an out-of-date version of live555 and other
software.</p>
<p>When this site provides stable URLs, also package maintainers for
Linux distributions, like Ubuntu or debian, and maintainers for embedded
build systems, like <a href="https://openwrt.org/">openwrt</a>, <a
href="https://buildroot.org/">buildroot</a> or <a
href="https://www.yoctoproject.org/">Yocto</a>, can use this site. It
provides stable URLs of all the released tarballs that can be put in
build scripts and package recipes.</p>
<h3 id="can-i-use-this-site-as-a-tarball-mirror">Can I use this site as
a tarball mirror?</h3>
<p>Not yet. For now the links to the live555 tarballs are direct links
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