[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage

[Billy Biggs]

Chris Zubrzycki (beren at mac.com):

> > > On OS X, mplayer links with the QuickTime library. How is that
> > > really different then the QuickTime library linking with mplayer
> > > code? It's not, they are both linked together in a common address
> > > space. I cannt see how this is such a problem. If a + b = c, then
> > > b+a still equals c.
> >
> >  Why does mplayer link to QuickTime on OS X?
> 
> Because it's the system graphics library. It links with the QuickTime
> library, not with the Quicktime program itself, just as it links with
> the other system libraries.  [...]

  Does mplayer have to use QuickTime to display video on the screen?  If
so, and that's all mplayer does with it, then it's a system library
according to the GPL and so it's exempt.

  -Billy