[MPlayer-DOCS] info.html: GPLv2 or later?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Greetings -- my apologies if this is the wrong list.  (It isn't a usage
> or compilation question, at least.)  It's about the web page
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html, and its statement
> 
>     MPlayer is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.
> 
> However, the documentation page
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html
> says that any later version of the GPL is also allowed:
> 
>     MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>     under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version.
> 
> I did not check every one of the 1100+ source files, but I did check a
> bunch of them, and they also said GPLv2 or later, not GPLv2-only
> (happily, from my perspective).
> 
> So, assuming it really is GPLv2 or later, could info.html be updated to
> match?

I suspect there is at least one piece of v2-only code somewhere in
MPlayer, but this is an issue that really requires some research to
resolve. If you'd like to dig thru all the files and publish your
results, I'm sure it would be helpful to someone or other.

Rich