[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] include dshow, ddraw, dinput headers

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 1/17/10, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> variants of those headers working with MinGW IMO are a bit hard to come by,
> so I wondered if you think it would be ok to out the somewhere in SVN.
> They are from wine and thus licensed GPL v2.1 or later:
> http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/ddraw.h
> http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/dinput.h
> http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/dsound.h
>
> ideally I'd like to put them e.g. in osdep and the add -Iosdep to
> extra_cflags
> on win32 so that MPlayer compiles with -vo directx and -ao dsound even on
> a fresh, unmodified MinGW installation.
> Comments, any variant of this that would be acceptable to everyone?
> (due to being GPLv2 without any exception I don't think they can/should
> be included in MinGW, I haven't even tried to get them included though).

I think the idea is good. These files are under LGPL so there is no
problem including them in the MPlayer as it is GPLv2 and later.
I think you may need to put LGPL license in the same folder as these files.