wessman
January 31st, 2003, 04:15 AM
MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
from the life-is-messy-sometimes dept.
posted by timothy on Wednesday January 29, @16:14 (linux)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1934211
protonman writes "A hefty flame war has broken loose on the [0]debian-devel mailinglist about (amongst other things) the legality of mplayer. The interesting part in this conflict is that unlike in previous alledged GPL violations, the culprit is not the unwillingness to provide the source, but the prohibition of the distribution of binaries, thereby violating section 6 of the GPL: 'You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.' Read also the blurb on [1]the MPlayer homepage."
Links:
0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
1. http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/
from the life-is-messy-sometimes dept.
posted by timothy on Wednesday January 29, @16:14 (linux)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1934211
protonman writes "A hefty flame war has broken loose on the [0]debian-devel mailinglist about (amongst other things) the legality of mplayer. The interesting part in this conflict is that unlike in previous alledged GPL violations, the culprit is not the unwillingness to provide the source, but the prohibition of the distribution of binaries, thereby violating section 6 of the GPL: 'You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.' Read also the blurb on [1]the MPlayer homepage."
Links:
0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
1. http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/