[MPlayer-users] Mplayer as a shared library

[Balatoni Denes]

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Hi!

I am not a lawyer btw, but I don't think gpl allows that.
For example libqt is gpl, so if you want to make proprietary or non-gpl 
software with it, you have to buy it. If you could make public domain
stuff, than my mother makes a pd hello world with gpl libqt, and than
I enhance it to kde3000, and than start selling it, as the hello world
was public domain so I can sell it if I want.
Correct me please if I am wrong, of course.

bye
Denes


> > and afaik GPL does not allow linking to non-GPL apps.
>
> Sure it does, as long as the linked code is also distributed under the
> GPL (or equivalently, distributed under terms less restrictive than
> GPL, such as LGPL, BSD (without advert clause), MIT, or public
> domain). What it does not allow is actually distributing the GPL code
> under a less restrictive license such as BSD, but i dont think thats
> the idea here.
>
> Rich

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