[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use libunrar when available (mac osx update)

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2007/8/22, Ulion <ulion2002 at gmail.com>:
> 2007/8/22, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> > Hello,
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +0800, Ulion wrote:
> > > Sorry, missed attachments.
> > >
> > > And about unrar's license, I copied it here. Are we free to use it
> > > like the patch does?
> >
> > No, because of this:
> >  but cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary.
> >
> > You probably couldn't even combine it with LGPL code, but certainly not
> > with GPL code like MPlayer, and I think this was the primary reason the
> > patch was rejected (note that you are of course free to do whatever you
> > want on your own machine, but the resulting binary is not
> > redistributable).
> >
>
> I'm not familar with such license stuff, but the only part used in our
> source, is the declaration of several unrar functions and structures,
> these won't possible 'be used to re-create the RAR compression
> algorithm', I don't think code in this patch will make any possibility
> 'be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm' in the future,
> doesn't it?

It's not that this piece of code infringes UnRAR's license, but rather
carrying part of the UnRAR source infringes mplayer's license.
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