[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Sat Jul 13 19:17:01 CEST 2002


On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:09:57PM +0200, Clemens Wächter wrote:
> So we can't argue logically. The only thing we could really claim in court
> in the asf->avi case is that mencoder is a collection of sources, not a
> full executable program, as written in the docs. But then we have to stop
> creating .rpm distributions. 

Yeah, you can declare that MPlayer is "only" source collection with copyright
GNU/GPL on EACH part. Maybe we should not distribute binaries, so it will
not a problem of our: it will the problem of binary distributors.

- Gábor (larta'H)




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