[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usag NO-SPAM e (Modifié par Jérôme Cornet)

Tobias Diedrich ranma at gmx.at
Wed Jan 14 04:51:43 CET 2004


D Richard Felker III wrote:

> QuickTime itself is non-free. Making a derivative work of MPlayer
> which is linked in as a component of non-free code (QuickTime) is not
> permitted by the GPL, as far as I can tell. LGPL would be required for
> something like this, and MPlayer is intentionally GPL rather than
> LGPL. Whether you release source is irrelevant.

This also means, that every time I view a file using a GPL-incompatible
win32 codec with mplayer, I violate the GPL because mplayer gets
dynamically linked to that dll, right?

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