[MPlayer-users] license

[Michael St. Laurent]

What?  Wait a minute.  Is the license licensed or something?  Does he
somehow have a say so in who can release their software under the GPL?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyan Ogilvie [mailto:cyan at inet.co.za] 
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:54 PM
> To: mplayer-users at mplayer.dev.hu
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] license
> 
> 
> This can be a problem.  A project I worked on (OCSweb) did more or
> less the same thing (GPL with very small ammendment, much smaller than
> proposed here) and RMS took offense.  He says if it's not 100% pure
> GPL you mustn't use GPL at all.
> 
> Cyan
> 
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:29:04PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > *that* so hard to understand and accept?
> > 
> > ok. i've found the solution.
> > 
> > let's say, the code written by me (and also other 
> developers who agree)
> > has a special license. it's based on GPL with one 
> exception: doesn't allow
> > distributing binaries. Now, we solved it. Other code which 
> comes from other
> > projects can stay GPL, we won't break licensing and go to jail.
> > but as the demuxers are key parts of mplayer, you even 
> can't compile other
> > parts without it.
> > 
> > Gabu, please change dox & homepage as the following:
> > 
> > MPlayer is basicly GPL, but contains some non-GPL code 
> which not allowed to
> > be distributed in binary form, and also contains the 
> opendivx library which
> > has special license.
> > 
> > Is it ok, guys?
> > 
> > 
> > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> > 
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> > http://esp-team.scene.hu
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