[MPlayer-dev-eng] Borrowing code for xmame

[David Holm]

One of the benefits of gpl is that it is infecting. Which means that if
they adopt any gpl code their work has to be released under the gpl as
well.

//David

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 17:07, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:23:01PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > iam not the author of the vesa or xv stuff but iam the author of the 
> > sw-scaler which is used in the vesa vo
> > 
> > On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:41, Lawrence Gold wrote:
> > > Apologies if this is directed to the wrong address.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I'm the maintainer of xmame (http://x.mame.net), a port of the
> > > well-known MAME (http://www.mame.net).  On several occasions, I have
> > > gotten requests from users to implement certain functionality found in
> > > MPlayer, such as hardware scaling using XVideo or fullscreen using VESA
> > > modes.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible for me to borrow some of this code, if it's
> > > applicable to xmame, and incorporate it into the project with a special
> > > "permission is granted for use in xmame" clause?  I understand that most
> > > of MPlayer is under the GPL, which is incompatible with the MAME license
> > > (http://www.mame.net/readme.html) because it forbids selling.
> > i noticed one thing while quickly reading through the license
> > "  There are some specific modifications to the source code which go against
> >    the spirit of the project. They are NOT considered a derivative work, and
> >    distribution of executables containing them is strictly forbidden. Such
> >    modifications include, but are not limited to:
> >    - enabling games that are disabled"
> > so there are games which are disabled? and which cannot be emulated because u 
> > dont want them to be emulated ... i dont like that
> 
> yeah, i agree that the mame license is particularly offensive and
> non-free, in that clause among others. i would recommend against
> anyone giving mame special permission to use their code. if mame wants
> to use gpl code, they can adopt a free license that's gpl-compatible.
> 
> just my two and a half cents...
> 
> rich
> 
> 
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