[MPlayer-dev-eng] violation of the GPL

[Amaury Jacquot]

Joey Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got an email from someone recently informing me that I am violating
> the GPL with concerns to MPlayer.
> 
> I don't distribute the full source on my cygwin MPlayer webpage, just
> a patchset.  This is because I don't want to keep up lots of big source
> archives that could get out of sync with MPlayer CVS.
> 
> Curtis Magyar says:
>  "I don't think your note that the source is available from mplayerhq is
> sufficient to satisfy your responsibility as far as the GPL is concerned."
> 
> And he sent me this link:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributingSourceIsInconvenient
> 
> My questions are:
>  1) Do you (anyone) have a problem with my policy?
>  2) Can I be in violation of the GPL if the creators don't care?

to me, a patchset is in the direct accordance with the GPL, you are 
redistributing the modifications.
perhaps, you may want to make engineer them so that they could be 
integrated in the main tree ?

Amaury

> Thanks,
> --Joey
>