Mplayer Charges License Violation

Posted by michael on Friday November 23, 2001 @09:34AM from the showing-feelings-of-an-almost-human-nature dept.

Several people have submitted stories about the author of Mplayer accusing Warpvision of, err, "borrowing" their code for Warpvision's OS/2 player. I have two reactions - one, someone still uses OS/2? And two, something about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery...Update from CD: Hold on there, everyone. I downloaded the WarpVision source and lo and behold the GPL is there in all its free software glory. I think Mplayer spoke too soon, too rashly, or alternatively, WarpVision was just too slow to update thier site. I'd love to hear both sides of this before we all freak out. Further Info: It was pointed out to me (CD) that the MPlayer program itself is not Open Source software (it calls itself Basically GPL, which, BTW, hasn't been approved by the OSI), so in the end this might just be proprietary software piracy. (Yawn)

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I wasn't shoplifting ... I was just shop imitating by Zero__Kelvin · 2001-11-23 09:52 · Score: 2, Funny

" I have two reactions - one, someone still uses OS/2? And two, something about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery..."

So basically, if I break in and steal Michael's computer, he won't want me prosecuted so long as I explain to him that I was flattering him by imitating him .... does this guy think at all before he posts his unecessary comments?

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freaky by ckuhtz · 2001-11-23 09:56 · Score: 2, Funny

What do you mean not freak out?
Isn't that the ./-way?
Buurrrap. Oops, must've been the turkey.

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