[MPlayer-cygwin] Frontend licensing question

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:57:47PM +0200, mplayer at turcic.com wrote:
> If someone wrote a commercial (!) frontend using binaries of Mplayer and

Please don't confuse commercial and proprietary, they're not the same
thing.  I assume you mean proprietary in this case.

> Mencoder as the necessary backend, would he be forced to release his
> frontend also under GPL? 

No.  The GPL still applies to MPlayer and MEncoder, though, so they have
to be distributed together with sources, basically.

Diego