[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage
Billy Biggs
vektor at dumbterm.net
Mon Jan 19 03:28:29 CET 2004
Chris Zubrzycki (beren at mac.com):
> > > On OS X, mplayer links with the QuickTime library. How is that
> > > really different then the QuickTime library linking with mplayer
> > > code? It's not, they are both linked together in a common address
> > > space. I cannt see how this is such a problem. If a + b = c, then
> > > b+a still equals c.
> >
> > Why does mplayer link to QuickTime on OS X?
>
> Because it's the system graphics library. It links with the QuickTime
> library, not with the Quicktime program itself, just as it links with
> the other system libraries. [...]
Does mplayer have to use QuickTime to display video on the screen? If
so, and that's all mplayer does with it, then it's a system library
according to the GPL and so it's exempt.
-Billy
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