[MPlayer-users] GPL Violation in Medion MD86597 Mediaplayer

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Henrik Niehaus <henrik.niehaus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> I discovered a GPL Violation concerning MPlayer. The german consumer
> electronics vendor Medion [1] sold a Mediaplayer, which has been
> developed for them by skymedi [2].

Thank you for the information!

Can you extract the MPlayer binary out of the hardware 
and upload it?

[...]

> Are there ways to force the GPL compliance (gpl-violations.org, FSF) ?

Not really.
Note that this is even more difficult since the fork 
of FFmpeg (our resources have been taken).

Carl Eugen