[MPlayer-dev-eng] SGPL licence

[Jesus Climent]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Ivan Kalvatchev wrote:
> Instead of making MPPL, why not make Strong GPL. It
> will be GPL with one more rule: Source always must be
> included. So if there is binary distro, the source
> will be included and lusers could compile it, if they
> find mplayer working but slow:)

What kind of brilliant idea is that?

GPL enforces that the code should be available. If users can reach the
code, why should you force to actually distribute that code?

Just set a pointer for the code and forget about strange licenses.

J.

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