[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer OCX Support

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:28:37PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:49:57PM +0200, roee wrote:
> >  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.
> > >   
> > 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?
> 
> Yes.

So it's just using slave mode or whatever? That's fine. The comments
earlier in this thread seemed to imply that it was "MPlayer made into
an ActiveX control", not "an ActiveX control which runs mplayer
-slave"..

Rich