[MPlayer-G2-dev] dual licensing

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Feb 22 18:04:30 CET 2004


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:24:28PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 14:23, Arpi wrote:
> [...]
> > it's not too late to ask agreement from contributors now, and
> > remove code if they don't agree. future contributors have to
> > accept the dual licensing. they did in the past for libavcodec,
> > which has such license since years.
> > (as Fabrice's employer company is using it in closedsrc product)
> if anyone tells me enough to verify that, actually i dont even know who 
> fabrices employer company is, and if he is seriously violating it, like 
> keeping improvements closed source then ill ensure he stops, but i wont 
> complain if hes just ignoring some detail of the lgpl like everyone else
> 
> 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?

I won't. Even if I get some or all of the money.

Rich




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