[MPlayer-users] MPlayer GPL Violation

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:41:06PM -0800, Dave wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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."

And it's true ;-)))))

- Gábor (larta'H)