[MPlayer-dev-eng] Please, tell me if my program is illegal.

[xarion]

Ok. There are patched files.
I still have a doubts because i don't know whether my program
is legal. I don't want to have a troubles.

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:10:50 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Quoting fixed. Please don't top-post.
>
>
> xarion wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:54:35 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:17 +0200 xarion <xarion at poczta.fm>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm author of a program, that uses modified code of Mplayer
>>>> (called Xarion Mplayer). My modifications are adding use of
>>>> caca, aa, X11, GL, newer DirectX version, enca, xmms, some
>>>> codecs and some bug patches for Mplayer code, so it was
>>>> posible to compile Mplayer using Cygwin and use of differenet
>>>> settings directory than home. All changed files are included
>>>> in source.zip (directory with changed files for Mplayer-
>>>> 1.0pre8”, which is included in Xarion Mplayer instlalation
>>>> directory).
>>>>
>>>
>>> 1) Use your "Return" key once in a while. Lines should not be
>>> longer than 60 characters.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>>
>>> 2) It's MPlayer and not Mplayer.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>>
>>> 3) What is legal and what not is defined by the GPL, you should
>>> read it.
>>>
>>
>> I know it, but I still have doubts.
>>
>
> About what? Specifics help.
>
>
>>> 4) If you have patches for MPlayer, don't hesitate to send them
>>> to us. Please read DOCS/tech/patches.txt
>>>
>>
>> 4) "Xarion MPlayer" isn't a patch to MPlayer, but a frontend for
>> Windows.
>>
>
> In your initial post you said "I'm author of a program, that uses
> modified code of Mplayer". The modifications to MPlayer are the
> patches he was talking about. (You even called them "patches" once
> in that same post.)
>
> If you need to make modifications to MPlayer for some reason, you
> should consider submitting those modifications as patches back to
> the MPlayer development tree.

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