[MPlayer-dev-eng] buy mplayer... apparently

Julien WAJSBERG flash at minet.net
Tue Dec 31 17:17:26 CET 2002


On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-2] Gábor Lénárt wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Björn Sandell wrote:
> > > http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?affiliate=15433&item=5284-2
> >
> > The same person/company is selling a mplayer here to
> >
> > http://www.softdepia.com/mp3_audio/players/mplayer_an_exciting_entertai.html
> >
> > There's a trial download on this page; unfortunately it didn't work for
> > me.
>
> Hmmm. Although it is legal to sell a GPL program (if all of its source is
> available) I think it's illegal to change the copyright:
>
>       MPlayer ..an exciting entertainment software ! is a shareware
>       program. You can download and try it for an evaluation period.
>
> MPlayer is GPL _NOT_ shareware! If it's "our" MPlayer, it's a very wrong thing,
> it's a violation of GPL ...
>
Seen on this page :

OS: Windows

Well, I know mplayer works with cygwin, but I don't think this is it
though :)

-- 
Julien Wajsberg





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