[MPlayer-cygwin] Frontend licensing question

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> 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
> > Mencoder as the necessary backend, would he be forced to release his
> > frontend also under GPL? 
> 
> As I understand it, no.  Only applications which link against or use
> part of the source of MPlayer must be open.  A frontend communicating
> via a pipe is okay.  I'm currently making a living doing exactly what
> you described, by the way.  So if I'm wrong, someone had better correct
> me soon.  :)

You are right.

Out of curiosity: What is it you are working on?  It might well be worth
a mention on the projects page..

Diego