[MPlayer-users] MPlayer GPL Violation

[Dave]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Steffen Barszus wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Saturday 28 December 2002 21:12, Dave wrote:
> > 
> > > > this page is about a hardware mpeg 1/2 decoder card/box. where is
> > > > mplayer?
> > >
> > > based on linux as stated on the page.
> >
> > So "based on linux" implies that Mplayer is being used?
> 
> You want to offend me ? It is really good to :
> 1) read
> 2) think
> 3) write
> in this order.
> 
> Arpi stated it is a hardwareencoder/decoder-box and I stated the box is based 
> on linux. So it could be possible. But I really don't care about it. If so : 
> why not ? As long as they give changes they made back there is no conflict I 
> guess - If they use mplayer at all. ...

Here is how I parsed the thread:

A question was asked:
	"where is mplayer?"

You answered with this statement:
	"based on linux as stated on the page"

This implies the statement:
	"If you want to play video on Linux, Mplayer is required."

Given that there are ways to play video on Linux without using GPLed code,
that statement makes no sense.  Therefore I replied with a question asking
if that's what you meant to say.


-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu