[MPlayer-users] Compiling in CYGWIN

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:14:45PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> atmos did a lots of changes in both makefiles and sources to get it
> compile. these are not commited and won't be soon.
> 
> in the other hand, we should *never* release win32 version.
> microsoft and others aren't interested _while_ we are under linux.
> but if we release a program for windows, which is able to play
> their propiertary asf and wvm files, ignoring their copyprotection etc,
> and even faster than their commercial stuff, they won't be happy and
> may force us to remove asf and dll support as they did with virtualdub,
> or even worse: send us to jail...

Hmmm, I don't think so it's possible in Hungary. I'm not a jurist but
even Microsoft's licences can be considered as illegal in Hungary from
the point of view of Hungarian laws. But I don't care about windows either
so this mail was only a theoretical one :)

- Gabor