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Mplayer Charges License Violation

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:MPlayer/GPL love/hate relationship by beable · · Score: 5, Informative

    To follow up, there are HEAPS of files in MPlayer which were released under the GPL. I can't see how the MPlayer authors can possibly not release MPlayer under the GPL.

    Files which contain a GPL Licence statement in MPlayer:

    grep -rn "General Public License" *|cut -f 1 -d :|sort |uniq

    ac3-iec958.c
    drivers/3dfx.h
    libac3/ac3.h
    libac3/ac3_internal.h
    libac3/bit_allocate.c
    libac3/bit_allocate.h
    libac3/bitstream.c
    libac3/bitstream.h
    libac3/coeff.c
    libac3/coeff.h
    libac3/crc.c
    libac3/crc.h
    libac3/debug.c
    libac3/debug.h
    libac3/decode.c
    libac3/decode.h
    libac3/dither.c
    libac3/dither.h
    libac3/downmix/downmix_3dnow.S
    libac3/downmix/downmix.c
    libac3/downmix/downmix_kni.S
    libac3/downmix.h
    libac3/exponent.c
    libac3/exponent.h
    libac3/imdct.c
    libac3/imdct.h
    libac3/mmx/imdct_3dnow.c
    libac3/mmx/imdct512_kni.S
    libac3/mmx/imdct_kni.c
    libac3/mmx/rematrix_3dnow.c
    libac3/mmx/srfft_3dnow.c
    libac3/mmx/srfft_kni_c.c
    libac3/mmx/srfft_kni.S
    libac3/mmx/srfftp_3dnow.h
    libac3/parse.c
    libac3/parse.h
    libac3/rematrix.c
    libac3/rematrix.h
    libac3/sanity_check.c
    libac3/sanity_check.h
    libac3/srfft.c
    libac3/srfft.h
    libac3/srfftp.h
    libac3/stats.c
    libac3/stats.h
    libmpeg2/attributes.h
    libmpeg2/header.c
    libmpeg2/idct.c
    libmpeg2/idct_mlib.c
    libmpeg2/idct_mmx.c
    libmpeg2/mm_accel.h
    libmpeg2/mmx.h
    libmpeg2/motion_comp.c
    libmpeg2/motion_comp_mlib.c
    libmpeg2/motion_comp_mmx.c
    libmpeg2/mpeg2.h
    libmpeg2/mpeg2_internal.h
    libmpeg2/slice.c
    libmpeg2/sse.h
    libmpeg2/stats.c
    libmpeg2/vlc.h
    libvo/video_out.c
    libvo/video_out_internal.h
    libvo/vo_3dfx.c
    libvo/vo_mga.c
    libvo/vo_null.c
    libvo/vo_sdl.c
    libvo/vo_syncfb.c
    libvo/vo_xmga.c
    libvo/yuv2rgb.c
    libvo/yuv2rgb.h
    libvo/yuv2rgb_mlib.c
    libvo/yuv2rgb_mmx.c
    opendivx/idct_c.c
    opendivx/idct_mmx.c
    TOOLS/mp.pl
    TVout/fbset/modeline2fb

    Please explain?

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