[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] DivX6 support

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:06:52AM -0400, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
> >Did you forget we distribute binaries? (Your RPMs, the win32 build,
> >...)
> >
> >Moreover, distributing a derived work of someone else's GPL source
> >that's been adapted to link to proprietary code, even if it's still in
> >source form, is extremely questionable IMO.. If it's not illegal it's
> >certainly against the spirit.
> 
> Well, yes it may be against the spirit of a pure opensource ideal,  
> but as long as the official builds don't link to the non-gpl  
> binaries, I don't see how a user wanting to link his copy to a  
> certain lib could be illegal.

What the user does in his/her own privacy is never illegal. The
question is about us making derived works that are linked (or
especially prepared for runtime linking which is the same thing) to
proprietary code.

Rich