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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 23 June 2006 at 03:31, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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...

I've read the relevant parts of the GPL and I don't think distributing
source code that uses an external proprietary library (which we're not
distributing) is infringing.

However, IANAL, so I may be mistaken.

Regards,
R.

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