[MPlayer-dev-eng] possible Licence infringement

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 04 March 2007 at 04:54, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> An user spotted me to this software:
> http://applian.com/replay-converter/index.php
> It's a commercial app that converts/encode videos
> similar to megui as the concept.
> 
> it embeds in the package a lot of binary codecs and gpl-ed apps
> it also has an ancestral version of mencoder (2005),
> It's legal to do this?

If it contains binaries compiled from unmodified sources, then mostly yes,
though the sources which were used to build those binaries should be made
available. I'll look into this soon.

Regards,
R.

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