[MPlayer-users] Mplayer not fully Free/GPL software?! eventhough the webpage says

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
 > > In divx4_vbr.c after the gpl statemet there is this:
 > > 
 > > *  Large parts of this code were taken from VbrControl() *
 > > *  from the OpenDivX project, (C) divxnetworks,          *
 > > *  this code is published under DivX Open license, which *
 > > *  can be found... somewhere... oh, whatever...          *
 > > 
 > > WTF?
 > 
 > divx4linux is not GPL, and this file belongs to divx4 support
 > if you don't use divx4 or xvid (neither of them is gpl) thsi file is not
 > used

MEncoder uses it.  At least I cannot compile it without the file, even
if I compile with --disable-divx4linux.

Diego