Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 12, 2004 @11:05AM from the kiss-off dept.

Snaller writes "Recently, MPlayer claimed that KISS Technology were violating the GPL by using parts of their MPlayer movie playback code in proprietary software. Now The Danish National Radio has interviewed the managing director of Kiss Technology, Peter Wilmar Christensen. He denies all claims of wrongdoing and suggests that if the pieces of code are the same, perhaps they were leaked from Kiss Technology and were then used by the Mplayer group. He also adds that the GPL is a weak license which has never been tested in court. Gabucino from the Mplayer team is furious, and accuses the director of outright lying."

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Kiss wouldn't be here if it wasn't for GPL. by julie-h · 2004-01-12 13:31 · Score: 1, Flamebait

In the end of the article and the interview Kiss tells the Open Source community to be happy that Kiss is using Linux, and from that we should thank them.

I think it is the other way around. Kiss should thank Linux for the kernel, as Kiss wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Linux!

The least Kiss could do, is not to abuse the community that made what Kiss is today.

Remember Linux came first, so it is Linux that made Kiss.