[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use libunrar when available (mac osx update)

[Ulion]

2007/8/22, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> Hello,
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +0800, Ulion wrote:
> > Sorry, missed attachments.
> >
> > And about unrar's license, I copied it here. Are we free to use it
> > like the patch does?
>
> No, because of this:
>  but cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary.
>
> You probably couldn't even combine it with LGPL code, but certainly not
> with GPL code like MPlayer, and I think this was the primary reason the
> patch was rejected (note that you are of course free to do whatever you
> want on your own machine, but the resulting binary is not
> redistributable).
>

I'm not familar with such license stuff, but the only part used in our
source, is the declaration of several unrar functions and structures,
these won't possible 'be used to re-create the RAR compression
algorithm', I don't think code in this patch will make any possibility
'be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm' in the future,
doesn't it?

-- 
Ulion