[MPlayer-cygwin] Frontend licensing question

[Joey Parrish]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:57:47PM +0200, mplayer at turcic.com wrote:
> If someone wrote a commercial (!) frontend using binaries of Mplayer and
> Mencoder as the necessary backend, would he be forced to release his
> frontend also under GPL? 

As I understand it, no.  Only applications which link against or use
part of the source of MPlayer must be open.  A frontend communicating
via a pipe is okay.  I'm currently making a living doing exactly what
you described, by the way.  So if I'm wrong, someone had better correct
me soon.  :)

--Joey

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