On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:03:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dim 26/01/2003 à 18:51, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > This is not legal, at least when there the software includes some GPL > > > code. > > Please provide a reference to the section of the GPL that would make > > this illegal. To the best of my knowledge, and from this brief > > description of what they're doing, this IS legal as long as they don't > > distribute binaries. > Section 2b requires derived works "to be licensed as a whole at no > charge to all third parties under the terms of [the GPL]". Which is > clearly not the case for mplayer as it includes GPL-incompatible code. The question is whether mplayer as a whole is necessarily considered a derived work of the GPL code if they aren't distributing binaries. In source form, it's possible they would be legally regarded as separate works that are distributed together. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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