[MPlayer-dev-eng] buy mplayer... apparently

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Tue Dec 31 15:53:14 CET 2002


On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Björn Sandell wrote:
> > http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?affiliate=15433&item=5284-2
> 
> The same person/company is selling a mplayer here to
> 
> http://www.softdepia.com/mp3_audio/players/mplayer_an_exciting_entertai.html
> 
> There's a trial download on this page; unfortunately it didn't work for
> me.

Hmmm. Although it is legal to sell a GPL program (if all of its source is
available) I think it's illegal to change the copyright:

      MPlayer ..an exciting entertainment software ! is a shareware
      program. You can download and try it for an evaluation period.

MPlayer is GPL _NOT_ shareware! If it's "our" MPlayer, it's a very wrong thing,
it's a violation of GPL ...

- Gábor (larta'H)



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