[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage (Modifié par Jérôme Cornet)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:59:46PM +0100, Jérôme Cornet wrote:
> >Because of the exception in the GPL @ line 159.
> 
> Let's see, that line #159 :
> 
> "However, as a
> special exception, the source code distributed need not include
> anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
> form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
> operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
> itself accompanies the executable."
> 
> QuickTime IS a major component of MacOS X. You cannot install MacOS
> X without it. There are no possibilities to have a MacOS X system
> without QuickTime.

This is OBVIOUSLY not the intent of the GPL. See the examples
(compiler, kernel) and the fact that they are clearly necessary
integral parts of the OS which programs MUST use to interface with the
system, versus bundled software (QuickTime). GPL v2 was written a long
time ago, before anyone thought of the (idiotic) idea of trying to
consider bundled software to be part of the OS.

Rich