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live555 unofficial archive and mirror

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This project is an unofficial archive and mirror of the source code of the LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries. It collects the source tarballs released on the server Are the tarballs authentic? you have to trust them.

But the code is open source. Inspecting the code is always possible.

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Yes, it’s legal. The original author released the live555 source code +under the GNU +Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This makes it free software +and redistributing the source code is allowed. See also the FAQ entry: +What +is the copyright on the source code, and how is it licensed? What are my +obligations under this license?

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And the original author also explicitly stats that other websites may +keep older archives and redistribute them.

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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.) […]

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See [Live-devel] +older source archives.

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What is the +expected audience of the mirror?

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The expected audience of this website are

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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the source code of +older live555 releases, e.g. when they investigate an insecure hardware +device that ships an out-of-date version of live555 and other +software.

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When this site provides stable URLs, also package maintainers for +Linux distributions, like Ubuntu or debian, and maintainers for embedded +build systems, like openwrt, buildroot or Yocto, can use this site. It +provides stable URLs of all the released tarballs that can be put in +build scripts and package recipes.

Can I use this site as a tarball mirror?

Not yet. For now the links to the live555 tarballs are direct links