[Mplayer-dev-eng] projectmayo's divx codec...

[Nick Kurshev]

Hi!

On 2001-07-18 05:58:43 Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:

[snipped out]

>
>I did what I could to convince people here to make today's release of
>decoder under LGPL, but I'm not the one who makes all decisions. Our
>strategists think that decoder is a potential source of revenue for the
>company, in which case it's safer not to have sources in public. It
>prevents our competitors ( ffmpeg guys for example ;-), or 3ivx )
>from stealing our code and putting it into their closed-source projects.
It's unbelievable - ffmpeg guys will steal their sources to put into
closed projects? IMHO talk was about decoder(s) which is(are) too open
in ffmpeg together with encoders.
Yea - soon mplayer will become a competitor too! ;)

[snipped out]

Best regards! Nick (2001-07-19 01:02:00)




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