[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mencoder vfw codecs configuration datasupport

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:23:23PM +0200, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > 
> >> This patch adds a new option to mencoder when used with -ovc vfw
> >> like -xvfwopts codecs=vp6vfw.dll:compdata=settings.mcf
> >>
> >> also using compdata=dialog, on win32 shows the codec
> >> configure dialog before starting the encoding.
> >> Attached also a small program that can be compiled
> >> with mingw, msvc2005 and with wingcc (yes it works also
> >> on linux) that can generate settings files by
> >> displaying the settings dialog.
> >> The patch follows the same code style of the original file.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>  
> >>
> > isn't this code incompatible with the gpl?
> 
> I assume the whole binary loader thingie isn't strictly GPL-compatible
> to begin with, so this patch doesn't change the situation.

Yes, something needs to be done about the situation though. As long as
we're just using in-house code it doesn't matter, but if MPlayer is
using any GPL code imported from other sources (including libaries),
then we are infringing the GPL as soon as we distribute MPlayer with
non-free binary codecs...

Rich