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Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featured audioand video player for UN*X like systems



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.

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