[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] DivX6 support

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Jun 23 03:31:16 CEST 2006


On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> A couple of kilobytes does not constitute bloat IMVHO, but considering
> the recent unrarlib discussion I'm beginning to think that including
> code solely for the purpose of using a proprietary library may not be
> such a good idea after all. Lets treat this as a proof-of-concept

To elaborate on this issue, I don't think we should be infringing the
GPL on the GPL code we've imported (by linking new proprietary
libraries) if we want to complain when other people infringe on
MPlayer. Otherwise we just look like hypocrites...

Rich




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