[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Use libunrar when available (2nd try)

[Zuxy Meng]

2006/6/22, Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com>:
> i,

Should have been 'Hi' here.:-)

>
> 2006/6/22, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:55:02PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Thanks! How about this one?
> >
> > Can you explain why on earth we would want to use dlopen at all rather
> > than just linking correctly?
> >
>
> Chiefly a consideration for package maintainers. As discussed in a
> previous thread, libunrar.so is quite unpopular, absent in most
> distros. dlopen makes those who use mplayer binary packages happy,
> because they only have to build & copy libunrar.so to somewhere sane,
> without recompiling the whole mplayer.
>
> Same is true for Windows users. And RARLab distribute unrar.dll and
> unrar.a binaries, but there's no libunrar.dll.a.
>

Forgot to ask, what's the legal implication here? Will linking against
libunrar.so violate GPL? I remember someone has told me dlopen it
won't violate anything.

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