[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer as a shared library

[Jason Smith]

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On Monday 25 November 2002 12:03 pm, gabor wrote:
> as far as i know if you use a GPL product ( library or whatever else ),
> your code MUST BE gpl....
>
> in the case of LGPL, you can link dinamically to it with a non GPL program

Exactly.  GNU started by iteratively replacing parts of Unix, one utility or 
library at a time.  But if you write e.g. libc as GPL, then proprietary Unix 
software above could not legally live on that system anymore.  That's bad if 
there is no GNU replacement.

But the FSF discourages LGPL software now, apparently.  See RMS's "Why you 
shouldn't use the LGPL" essay:

  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html

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Jason Smith
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