Hi, I really didn't read all the license discussion, so ignore me if anybody else made it clear already: If your code is not under some specific license, then NOBODY may use it _without your permission_. Not even copy it. Only you as the author has the copyright, no matter if you put it on a website or lock it at home in a drawer. Just like images on a website may not simply be copied, even if there is not license attached to it that forbids that. By putting your code under some special license, like GPL, you allow others to use and modify your code under some restrictions. If there is no special license, then you DON'T allow other to use your code (and nothing is needed for modification, because that's using already). If you wan't to state that anybody can do anything with the source, you have to give a license which claims that: "Everybody can do anything he likes with this code". Of course, if you send your code to be included in MPlayer, then you obviously allow it to be distributed with MPlayer. But not more and it may not be taken out of MPlayer and used elsewhere unless you give permission again. gruel -- Christoph H. Lampert chl@math.uni-bonn.de | Diese Signature wurde maschi- Beringstr. 6, Raum 15 Tel. (0228) 73-4708 | nell erstellt und bedarf Sprechstunden Di/Do 10-11 und spontan | keiner Unterschrift. AZ 27B-6