[MPlayer-G2-dev] dual licensing try 2

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:26:56PM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > (b) taking legal action against anyone who uses MPlayer code for
> > proprietary purposes
> Gosh, Richard, legal action doesn't "just happen" by the Fellow OSS Community!
> Who is going to support it? You? No offense but you're a Free Software guy, who
> can't stand the air of a courtroom, so I guess the answer is no.

I expect if MPlayer asks for donations to pay for a lawyer, many many
users would donate. I'd be happy to work on legal logistics if the
matter were in my country, but IIRC KISS is somewhere in Europe, so
one of the Europeans should probably take care of it.

> > When developing free software, the goal is making good free software, and
> > making sure it's better than the proprietary junk. Not boosting your ego or
> > getting paid.
> And another goal is not letting "them" steal your work easily. GPL doesn't
> protect against that no matter what RMS says, unless you have big bucks to back
> it up.

Or you take the easy approach and assign copyright to someone who can
and will take action to back it up. This could be the FSF, but doesn't
necessarily have to be.

Rich