[MPlayer-users] skins license

[Dariusz Pietrzak]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Arpi wrote:

> imho yes
imho no.

> at least it was made for us, so it's supposed to have the same license as
> mplayer
fonts are also supposed to be made for mplayer, they are based on .ttf
from M$ ( that's what I recall, maybe i'm wrong, this would solve some
problems ), and those are free to use, but not to distribute.


> imho GPL for skin is rotfl.
it is, but what better do we have?
I'm not a lawyer, and for don't want to become one, just saying 'its gpl'
is simple and easy.

> gpl says you have to publish patches and source.
> have you ever seen patch for a gimp or photoshop "source" file (that stuff
> with layers vectors text etc)?
That's like arguing about 'source' for modern RAD applications.

> anyway we don't have the "source" for the skins, none of them
 Hmm, khuh, the *.pngs are the source, and 'compiled' 'target' are
uncompressed bitmaps. kheh.


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Dariusz Pietrzak