[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MEncoder license inquiry

[yichun.huang at kodak.com]

>MPlayer is GPL, not LGPL. This means, AFAIK, that you can't take
>MPlayer code, put it into a library, and then link closed-source
>components against it to create a binary that has both GPL and
>closed-source sections. You cannot create a closed-source application
>that contains MPlayer/MEncoder source code, or statically links
>against it. If your closed-source application just invokes a GPL
>application (as a separate exe) that's usually a different matter.

>Of course, the code that you have written yourself (for MediaCoder) is
>yours to license as you see fit.

I'm not putting any code of MPlayer/MEncoder into my library. It is still 
in the form of an executable binary file. My library invokes MEncoder (I 
patched MEncoder to let it stream out audio data through a pipe to my 
library), monitor it and read statistics from the console. So is it 
correct that this won't break GPL, as long as my patch on MEncoder is 
published?

Stanley