[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:48:15PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann'
> >Mierzejewski wrote:
> >
> >>On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 09:44, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>
> >>>Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
> >>>
> >>>>With the release of MPlayer 0.90pre9 all licensing issues have
> >>>>been eliminated and all code is licensed under the GPL.
> >>>
> >>>This is not exactly true, some code is not GPL, see the Copyright
> >>>file.  It's all GPL-compatible, though, and thus MPlayer as a
> >>>whole is GPL.
> >>
> >>How about "(...) all code is licensed either under the GPL or a
> >>GPL-compatible license."?
> >
> >Sounds good.
> 
> Slightly incorrect, though - the word "under" needs to be either moved
> one word left ("licensed under either the GPL or a") or repeated
> ("licensed either under the GPL or under a").
> 
> Personally, I'd just say "is available under a GPL-compatible license",
> to avoid unnecessary complication - but I'm not nearly so intimately
> familiar with the ins and outs of the license wars as are some others
> here, so I'm not going to push this too hard.

all of mplayer is licensed under the gpl, as REQUIRED by the gpl as
soon as we use any external gpl code. large parts are additionally
available under other weaker licenses as well, but that's irrelevant.

rich