[MPlayer-dev-eng] Small talk on the GPL by laymen

[Romain Dolbeau]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> No. The GPL does not have to be tried in court. If you do not meet its
> terms, then you have no license to copy, and thus you're infringing
> copyright. It's very simple.

Could be. Except if a court decide the entire GPL is
void and therefore that any GPL software is unredistributable
or at the opposite public domain. Unlikely, but you
never know what a judge will say.

>>PMlayer *is* linked to QuickTime, yet the mplayer authors
>>can't re-licence QuickTime under the GPL, so dynamic
>>linking better be OK....
> 
> WTF is PMlayer? We certainly don't distribute it.

Oups sorry, I thought we were having an intelligent
dicussion. Didnt't notice this was a flame fest.
(or is that typo *that* bad ?)

<snip pointless attempt at intelligent talk, it doesn't
belong in mplayer-dev-eng anyway>

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Romain Dolbeau
Not speaking for my employer