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meson: add 'gpl' option to allow/disallow build of plugins with (A)GPL deps (and bump meson req to 0.59)

Tim-Philipp Müller requested to merge tpm/gstreamer:gpl-opt-in into main

Require explicit opt-in to build plugins with (A)GPL dependencies, same as e.g. FFmpeg does.

Discuss.

Now one might say it's not like gst-plugins-ugly gets any less ugly if you don't build the GPL bits, but I think there are really entirely separate concerns here, and with the monorepo setup it's even easier now to pull in GPL-ed things automatically.

People building proprietary stuff on top of GStreamer are "terrified" of GPL-ed dependencies (their words), whilst generally being reasonably sure that they've got themselves covered on the patent front for the things that they're using or at least less bothered about it.

Edited by Tim-Philipp Müller

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