[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Mplayer License?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:27:18AM -0800, Warren shooter wrote:
> Thanks for clearing that up for me,
> 
> I will provide you with the product page as soon as the web guys finish it. As a 
> courtasy I will ask for our web site to also have a link back to your page.
> 
> I will take all nessesary care to respect your license. If at anytime you feel 
> our product breaches your license let me know and I will make the nessesary 
> amendments immediatly.
> 
> You might like to know that I have evaluated many comercial solutions to playing 
> avi's in our software environment. We wish to add MPlayer support to the 
> application because none of the comercial products could match MPlayer it in 
> terms of performance and reliability (our key concerns).

Nice to hear.

best wishes

Diego

P.S.: Non-top-posting is a plus ;)


> >Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:36:22 +0100
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> Warren shooter <shooter at farts.com> Re: Mplayer License?
> >On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:39:00AM -0800, Warren shooter wrote:
> >> 
> >> I have read the mplayer license several times as well as the GPL faq and am 
> >> becoming very confused, I just don't get legal mumbo jumbo.
> >> 
> >> Is it allowed for comercial software to distibute and launch mplayer.
> >
> >Yes, as long as you respect the GPL.
> >
> >> My sotware currently allows for playback of video's using windows media 
> player. 
> >> I wish to provide the _option_ of using mplayer instead.
> >> 
> >> Synopsis of what I want to do:
> >> - charge $ for my software
> >> - Distribute mplayer binaries and source bundled with my application
> >> - Have my application launch the bundelled mplayer software.
> >> - Openly promote mplayer as the avi video rendrer used.
> >> 
> >> Synopsis of what I want I _don't_ want to do:
> >> - Attract lawsuits
> >> - Modify or customise mplayer
> >> - Merge mplayer code with mine, (I just want to call mplayer.exe)
> >> - upset you guy's
> >> - get blacklisted
> >> - distribute the source code to my application
> >> - deny your credit or ownership of mplayer.
> >
> >Sounds good.  The GPL allows all of this.
> >
> >If your program has a homepage, I'd like to link to it on our related
> >projects page.
> >
> >Diego
> >On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:39:00AM -0800, Warren shooter wrote:
> >> 
> >> I have read the mplayer license several times as well as the GPL faq and am 
> >> becoming very confused, I just don't get legal mumbo jumbo.
> >> 
> >> Is it allowed for comercial software to distibute and launch mplayer.
> >
> >Yes, as long as you respect the GPL.
> >
> >> My sotware currently allows for playback of video's using windows media 
> player. 
> >> I wish to provide the _option_ of using mplayer instead.
> >> 
> >> Synopsis of what I want to do:
> >> - charge $ for my software
> >> - Distribute mplayer binaries and source bundled with my application
> >> - Have my application launch the bundelled mplayer software.
> >> - Openly promote mplayer as the avi video rendrer used.
> >> 
> >> Synopsis of what I want I _don't_ want to do:
> >> - Attract lawsuits
> >> - Modify or customise mplayer
> >> - Merge mplayer code with mine, (I just want to call mplayer.exe)
> >> - upset you guy's
> >> - get blacklisted
> >> - distribute the source code to my application
> >> - deny your credit or ownership of mplayer.
> >
> >Sounds good.  The GPL allows all of this.
> >
> >If your program has a homepage, I'd like to link to it on our related
> >projects page.