[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer licensing [and lotso other stuff as I'm tySun Nov 25 20:52:05 2001

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > 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.

ok BSD is bad too, in the opposite direction.
any other suggestion?

> 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 it doesn't allow using non-GPL (but opensource, free) code in GPL prg.

and you are wrong, more than half of usefull code (codecs, demuxers etc)
aren't GPL.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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