[MPlayer-users] Re: License

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:45:59PM +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> If you are right, ANY non-GPL program links against libc
> would be illegal ... [OK, libc is LGPL, but mplayer does not even LINKS with
> DLLs!!!] So MPlayer CAN BE GPL if other problems are solved.

libc is LGPL, so this does not apply.

GNU gettext (iirc), for example, is GPL (not LGPL). As are many other
GNU libraries. You indeed cannot legally distribute a "modified work"
(anything linked against these), unless it is GPL. Note that this
probably does not apply to source distributions.

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