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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Re:OS/2 by tom1974 · 2001-11-23 12:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

Just so you know why OS/2 is on all those ATM machines you see out there, it's because those are 'IBM' machines made by IBM, installed by IBM and serviced by IBM, and it was IBM who put OS/2 in them. Since you're dealing with the banks, i.e if it ain't broke don't fix it, OS/2 lives happily on those machines.

And no, I'm ain't no sheep.