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

[Chris Zubrzycki]

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On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann'  
> Mierzejewski wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Did you forget we distribute binaries? (Your RPMs, the win32 build,
> ...)
>
> Moreover, distributing a derived work of someone else's GPL source
> that's been adapted to link to proprietary code, even if it's still in
> source form, is extremely questionable IMO.. If it's not illegal it's
> certainly against the spirit.

Well, yes it may be against the spirit of a pure opensource ideal,  
but as long as the official builds don't link to the non-gpl  
binaries, I don't see how a user wanting to link his copy to a  
certain lib could be illegal.

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