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

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Aug 22 10:13:58 CEST 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:52:11PM +0800, Ulion wrote:
> 2007/8/22, Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com>:
> >
> > It's not that this piece of code infringes UnRAR's license, but rather
> > carrying part of the UnRAR source infringes mplayer's license.
> 
> Ok, I know. Does this mean only if the author of the unrar re-license
> part of unrar's code (including the patch used part) to a license
> without such limit, then we can apply the patch without infringes
> mplayer's license?

Not part of unrar, all of it.  unrar has a non-free license that is
incompatible with the GPL.

Diego



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