[MPlayer-dev-eng] Utilize libunrar.so/unrar.dll?

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:19:58PM +0300, ?smail Dönmez wrote:
> > I'm against supporting win32 dlls too, but especially against this
> > 'feature' which (unlike win32 codec support) is totally useless. If
> > people want to play these subs they can just use the external unrar
> > binary first.
> >
> > unrar3 has source anyway, so if you insist on having rar3 support in
> > MPlayer, read the source and then write an independent implementation
> > of the decompresser under some free license..
> 
> Except you are not allowed to read the code if you will develop an unrar-like 
> program :-).

Utter nonsense. They can write this bullshit but it has no legal
meaning.

Rich