[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use external libs to handle rar subtitles

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:15:30AM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Rich Felker!
> 
>  On 2005.10.26 at 01:21:01 -0400, Rich Felker wrote next:
> 
> > > Users have libunrar.so or they can hardly decompress anything, as most
> > > rar archives today are v3.
> > 
> > I don't have libunrar.so, I just have a standalone unrar program I
> > compiled from leaked source before it was public. :) Or something like
> > that..
> 
> Why not provide source of libunrar with mplayer, build and install it
> with mplayer, and dlopen it? The only problem is you won't be able to
> write that "all source code in this tarball is under GPL"..

This is definitely violating the GPL on any other GPL code (i.e. code
we did not write) that's included in MPlayer. IMO it even violates it
for us to distribute GPL-incompatible code separately with the
intention that it be linked to MPlayer, including binary codecs.

Rich