Nothing contained herein should be or can be construed as legal
advice. I am not a lawyer. You probably are not a lawyer.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the
Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not
apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate
works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a
whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of
the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions
for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each
and every part regardless of who wrote it.[1]
The question is: Is mplayer a whole based upon (in part) a library
which is part of a program covered by the GPL?
I'd argue that it is, but that's the question that has to be asked.
The GPL does not distinguish in this paragraph between source and
binary forms of distribution.
Don Armstrong
1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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