[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usag NO-SPAM e (Modifié par Jérôme Cornet)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:51:43AM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > QuickTime itself is non-free. Making a derivative work of MPlayer
> > which is linked in as a component of non-free code (QuickTime) is not
> > permitted by the GPL, as far as I can tell. LGPL would be required for
> > something like this, and MPlayer is intentionally GPL rather than
> > LGPL. Whether you release source is irrelevant.
> 
> This also means, that every time I view a file using a GPL-incompatible
> win32 codec with mplayer, I violate the GPL because mplayer gets
> dynamically linked to that dll, right?

No, this is only use, not distribution of a derived work. Other
factors come into play too.

Rich