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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. RMS is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Abolish Copyright, and you won't see any more silly "license" violation. The GPL is only necessary to protect us from hoarders in a copyright setting.

  2. from an OS/2 and Linux user... by jejones · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Hmmm...too bad there's no way to rate an article as a troll or flamebait. (Ah, well; if it makes you feel better...)

    In any case, I would hope the matter is settled, and a proper port of mplayer done.

  3. Feelings of an almost human nature? [OT] by EmilEifrem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This will not do. Call in the school master!

    I'm sitting at a friend's, hacking away at our current pet project while listening to Wish you were here. It's good, but it's not even close to The Wall.

    (And yes, this *is* OT but at least his department choice invited to it!)