[MPlayer-users] Mplayer as a shared library

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:10PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > imho gnome is not gpl, at least libgtk is LGPL
> > 
> > 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.

Hmmm, yes, then code can be stolen by eg Microsoft :) BSD license is simply
sux because the lack of the need to use the same license for the project
where you want to use a BSD licensed part or whatever. It's another question
that you may cannot avoiding your GPL code stolen (maybe you haven't got
enough money to sue a big company) but at least GPL is better in theory.
However in the real world, there is NO *perfect* license can be created
suitable for some "little" programmers which can protect them against a
Microsoft ;-( Well, of course this mail is strictly "IMHO" ...

- Gábor (larta'H)