[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer OCX Support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:49:57PM +0200, roee wrote:
>  Rich Felker:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:42:57PM +0200, roee wrote:
> >   
> >> Are you sure? each program which uses this (open source) activeX must be 
> >> GPL? there are no changes in MPlayer, so i'm not sure about it..
> >
> > If it's interfacing with the program at all as a library then YES.
> > Whether or not you modified MPlayer is irrelevant. RTFGPL. MPlayer is
> > not here to facilitate proprietary assholes making money off
> > shareware/malware/whatever the popular thing to make for Windows is
> > these days. If you want to benefit from using MPlayer in your program,
> > then you play by the rules and release under GPL.
> >   
> well, the activeX only open MPlayer as a new process and is showing the 
> video using the -wid option.. so as far as i understand, the activeX or 
> any program which uses this activeX not have to be GPL..  (anyway the 
> activeX is open-source)
> am i right?

Yes.

Diego