[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer OCX Support

[roee]

 Rich Felker:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:42:57PM +0200, roee wrote:
>   
>> Are you sure? each program which uses this (open source) activeX must be 
>> GPL? there are no changes in MPlayer, so i'm not sure about it..
>>     
>
> If it's interfacing with the program at all as a library then YES.
> Whether or not you modified MPlayer is irrelevant. RTFGPL. MPlayer is
> not here to facilitate proprietary assholes making money off
> shareware/malware/whatever the popular thing to make for Windows is
> these days. If you want to benefit from using MPlayer in your program,
> then you play by the rules and release under GPL.
>
> Rich
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well, the activeX only open MPlayer as a new process and is showing the 
video using the -wid option.. so as far as i understand, the activeX or 
any program which uses this activeX not have to be GPL..  (anyway the 
activeX is open-source)
am i right?