[MPlayer-dev-eng] helix codecs

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:58:10PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> schrieb:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > Why should we *distribute* helix codecs w/ mplayer ?
> > > We just wanna use already installed one codecs, just like any
> > > other library ...
> > 
> > A binary with helix libs named in the elf headers is linked to helix
> > and cannot be distributed under the GPL.
> 
> The ELF headers only mention library names, so ld.so can find out
> which library filenames to look for. It does not say anything about,
> where the actual code of this library comes from - it's just a name.

Unless there is a GPL-compatible library with this name and ABI, then
it is NOT JUST A NAME, it's linking, plain and simple. This was
decided a long time ago.

Rich