docs/release: drop the C1 licensing gate, simplify install instructions
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The WebRTC/OpenH264 attribution question tracked as "C1" throughout README, third_party/livekit/README.md, the release-notes template, and both workflow header comments is the project owner's call, and it has been made -- own sign-off given and reaffirmed. Remove the gate language and the extended research writeup from release-facing docs; keep the actual LICENSE/NOTICE files themselves (Apache-2.0 requires shipping those regardless of any of this). Also simplify the release notes' install instructions per owner request: point at each platform's default OBS plugins folder rather than walking through verbose per-platform copy/extract instructions -- the archives already extract straight into place (prior commit), so a short pointer is all that's needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
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## Status
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**Release/distribution of built binaries is blocked pending owner sign-off.**
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This plugin statically/dynamically pulls in Google WebRTC and OpenH264 code
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through the LiveKit SDK — a real patent/royalty question (OpenH264/WebRTC)
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that only the project owner can decide. Nothing in this repo should be built
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into a package and handed out, posted, or attached to a public release until
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that sign-off happens. See `third_party/livekit/README.md` for the specifics
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of what is and is not currently known/shipped on the licensing side —
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including a 2026-09-07 finding, sourced from Cisco's own OpenH264 FAQ, that
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the way LiveKit's WebRTC build normally links OpenH264 (statically, from
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source, not Cisco's runtime-downloaded binary) is specifically the case Cisco
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says voids their MPEG-LA royalty coverage and shifts it to the redistributor.
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That finding has not been confirmed against LiveKit's actual pinned build —
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see the third_party doc for exactly what is and isn't verified. (CI in
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`.gitea/workflows/build.yml` only builds, tests, and uploads CI-internal
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build artifacts — it does not create a Gitea Release or otherwise publish
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anything publicly.
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This project's own code is Apache-2.0 (relicensed from GPL-2.0-or-later to
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match the vendored LiveKit binaries, which are also Apache-2.0 — see
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`LICENSE` and `NOTICE`, and `third_party/livekit/` for LiveKit's own).
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`.gitea/workflows/release.yml` is the mechanism that *would* publish a
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release, but it does not run automatically: it is gated on someone pushing a
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`v*` tag, which is the actual sign-off gate in practice — don't push one
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until the owner has actually signed off on C1. When it does run, it packages
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each platform's `build/package/` (or macOS's bundle output, once that lands)
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into a zip and creates a **draft** Gitea Release, whose generated release
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notes lead with the same C1 reminder as this section, so whoever opens the
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draft to publish it sees the open question again before doing so. Building
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that mechanism is not the same as clearing C1 — it still requires the same
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owner sign-off before a tag gets pushed.)
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The separate license-compatibility question — this repository's own top-level
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`LICENSE` was GPLv2 while the vendored LiveKit binaries are Apache-2.0, which
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are incompatible — is **resolved**: the project owner has relicensed this
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project's own first-party code to Apache-2.0, matching LiveKit. Everything in
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this repo is now Apache-2.0, so there is no remaining GPL/Apache
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incompatibility.
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`.gitea/workflows/build.yml` builds, tests, and uploads CI-internal build
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artifacts on every push. `.gitea/workflows/release.yml` packages a tagged
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build (`v*`) into a **draft** Gitea Release — draft because nobody has run
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this in the OBS GUI yet (see below), not because of anything else; a human
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still needs to open it and click Publish.
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The plugin is **functionally complete on Linux and verified end to end there**
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(module loads into real libobs, connects to a real LiveKit server through the
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