[MPlayer-cygwin] Frontend licensing question

[Joey Parrish]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:53:31PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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..

It's a video application developed by a company in Dallas, TX.  It's in
the early stages right now and I really can't talk about it.  Basically,
the GUI uses a custom MPlayer binary as a video-player backend with
-slave, -wid, -geometry, etc.  When it's released, I'll certainly
announce the product here.

--Joey

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