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

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Rich Felker!

 On 2005.10.26 at 12:15:59 -0400, Rich Felker wrote next:

> 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

Why? The GPL says that GPL and non-GPL code can't coexists in the same
tarball? As long as "the libunrar/ dir is under xxx license, the rest is
under GPL" is mentioned in license, what's the problem.

> for us to distribute GPL-incompatible code separately with the
> intention that it be linked to MPlayer, including binary codecs.

Not linked. dlopen'ed. That's the difference.. If the user decides to
remove libunrar mplayer will continue to work, only will lose some
non-essential functionality. libunrar also can be replaced with newer
version or by some GPL code with the same functionality and it won't
affect mplayer. GPL allows that kind of thing.

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Vladimir