[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer licensing [and lotso other stuff as I'm typingSat Nov 24 12:52:16 2001

[Jesus Climent]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:59:43PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Ok I know you think now: But WTF then with binary packages? Yes, we cannot 
> > > prohibit them anymore then, but we can still deny bugreports and discourage 
> > > binary packages.
> > Yes :/
> No.
> Until we make it possible to create usefull binary packages, we shouldn't
> change the license. And after it's done, i'm unsure it should be GPL. maybe
> other licenses (BSD?) are better for our needs.

If what scares you about GPL is the "stealing" code, BSD allows to take the
code, modify it, and sale the modifications in closed_source format, as the
guys from russia are doing, even without mentioning a shit about you.

I _REALLY_ would like to know what you, Arpi, have against GPL, since it
has allowed you to use great peaces of code for making such a great program
that mplayer is. With those projects in GPL you have been able to borrow the
code and modify it, improve it.

But again, this is my _own_ opinion, and as such, evetybody can argue 
against it.

Jesse.

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