[MPlayer-dev-eng] Utilize libunrar.so/unrar.dll?

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Sat Oct 22 11:23:05 CEST 2005


Hi,
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:15:23AM +0300, ?smail Dönmez wrote:
> On Saturday 22 October 2005 11:09, Rich Felker wrote:
> [...]
> > In any case, linking rar code to MPlayer is not GPL compatible. If you
> > want it done, we need an independent implementation...
> 
> We can dlopen it without breaking GPL. But heck this thread needs a patch 
> before further discussion imho :)

True (the patch part, not sure about the dlopen part). But that code there is
so broken I doubt someone can make a clean patch. And I'd also like to say
that I find gzip/bzip2 support more important...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger




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