No, most are not GNU. AFAIK it is a free to use plugin modell. But You can use it for anything even for things that need a licence. Commercial browser versions have licence to ship Real, Quicktime ... plugin and player, Java and runtime (JVM).
It is also a matter of download size. You would not have the assorted lot - but maybe the activeX plugin for the players, that is small and the sourcec
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