[MPlayer-users] MPlayer licensing

[Dan Taylor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu 
> [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Duncan Bayne
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:07 PM
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] MPlayer licensing
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am building a command-line driven media library manager, that will
> play music by forking a process to run a native music-playing tool.
> I'd like to use MPlayer as there are binaries available for most
> platforms I'm targeting.
> 
> What I'd like to do is have my code structure something like this:
> 
>   + andelys
>     + src
>       + andelys.rb
>       + andelys_tests.rb
>       + ...
>     + players
>       + win32
>         + mplayer
>           + ...
>       + linux_x86
>         + mplayer
>           + ...
>       + ...
> 
> The idea is that you can install the manager and the command-line
> players just by doing an SVN checkout.
> 
> However, the catch is that means embedding the MPlayer binaries into
> my source tree.  I'm currently using the GPLv3, but I'm aware that
> MPlayer is GPLv2 _only_.
> 
> So ... what do I have to do?  I guess I need to make explicit in my
> own licensing files the fact that I'm using GPLv3 for my _own_ code
> within the project, but that some dependencies of my code (e.g.
> mp3info which is under the Ruby License, and MPlayer binaries which
> are under GPLv2) are under different licenses.
> 
> Would that keep you guys happy?
> 
> Yours,
> Duncan Bayne
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While I applaud the use of some sort of GPL on your code, is there some
reason you can't use slave mode, rather than embedding mplayer?

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt