[MPlayer-dev-eng] helix codecs

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> schrieb:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:39:57PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> schrieb:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't linking against non-GPL/LGPL .so's violate MPlayer's license (GPL)?
> > 
> > hmm, I don't think so. The (L)GPL defines limits where the code may 
> > be used, ie. what license some code must have when it wants to use
> > (-> import) certain code under (L)GPL, but I don't think it doesn't
> > say anything about what kind of code an (L)GPL project may use.
> 
> The problem is that if you link in non-free code, the resulting
> program is no longer distributable in its entirety under the GPL and
> thus is no longer distributable at all.

Why should we *distribute* helix codecs w/ mplayer ?
We just wanna use already installed one codecs, just like any
other library ...


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