[MPlayer-G2-dev] dual licensing

[Arpi]

Hi,

> btw, IMHO dual licensing will mean mplayer G2s death, ppl simply wont 
> contribute anymore, or would u contribute to a project for which someone else 
> gets alot of money?

It depends.
I would, if
- it's only a small contribution (few-liner fix etc)
- it's a feature i need, and i want it to be in the cvs
- i know that the money they (the developers, not "someone else") receive
  is all spent on the development (buying server hardware/hosting, hardware
  for developers, documents (ieee/iso standards, chip specs...) etc)
  don't worry, it won't be spent on malaysian bitches for gabucino :)

Anyway contributions to core is very rare, and even then it's either a
big cosmetics mess or something broken code :)
Most contributions are plugins/modules, ie. new codecs, demuxers, vo
drivers, filters, and they may be single-licensed too.
(ie license buyers are not allowed to use them in closed code)
Although i vote for dual-licensing as much as possible.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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Developer of MPlayer G2, the Movie Framework for all - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu