[MPlayer-users] GPL Violation in Medion MD86597 Mediaplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 02:13:37AM -0700, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> > they risk losing a substantial part of their income from it
> > should I or any other developer feel forced to take it to court,
> > and in addition they would permanently lose any right to ever again
> > use> any part of MPlayer code without negotiating a license
> > beforehand.
> 
> Has this ever actually been enforced?

I believe not, to my knowledge that is rather considered
an unfortunate side-effect of GPLv2 than intentional.

> > No, there is no common copyright holder, the individual
> > authors (like me) are.
> > The FSF already have permission to go after violations
> 
> Permission from who?

>From a significant number of FFmpeg authors.