[MPlayer-users] Re: License

[Tomi Ollila]

Tuesday Oct 9 12:40:36 +0200 2001 Tom Mraz <t8m at centrum.cz> wrote:
> 
> Yes, Mplayer actually violates the GPL. Because you can't distribute
> anything which is derivative of some GPLed work with different license than
> GPL. The license of the included things would have to be at least LGPL and
> then you would have to include these included things by dynamic linking at
> runtime (no static linking). Other way you aren't allowed to distribute the
> program.
> So GPLed program isn't possible to link with proprietary codecs DLLs.

How does mplayer module linking differ from Linux module linking in this
issue. Linus allows proprietary modules to be linked w/ Linux kernel.
Linux license is GPL and upto now no-one has loudly attacked this
issue.

> 
> Tomas Mraz


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