[MPlayer-dev-eng] proprietary front end for mplayer?

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue Nov 14 11:14:05 CET 2006


Please don't top-post.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:22:21PM +0530, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
> I want to use binary (which user has to install) of mplayer. I'm not using/
> integrating any mplayer library in my  Gui. I'm calling mplayer binary to
> play file.

So have you read the GPL and the GPL FAQ, yes or no?

Diego

> On 11/14/06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> >
> >On Tuesday, 14 November 2006 at 02:09, Jason Geng wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote on 2006-11-13 21:00:
> >> >On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:20:53PM +0530, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
> >> >wrote:
> >> >>Can I build a proprietary front end for mplayer?
> >> >
> >> >It seems to me you read neither the GPL, nor the GPL FAQ ...
> >>
> >> Why not if he only exec mplayer binary and communicate with it by a
> >pipe?
> >
> >Note that Diego didn't say "no".
> >
> >Regards,
> >R.



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