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Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Yu shud spel betta. by Spoke · · Score: 0, Troll

    Um, yeah.

  2. Re:And As Always... by siphi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Set opera to reload every 5 secs on their site. Mwahahahahaha.

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  3. Re:GPL == strong by oolon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is BSD more "viable", BSD licence just gives it away for all to use, with that licence everyone is allowed to take your work. Many people (myself included) would rather it rotted on a shief that do that, but are more than happy to allow people to use and improve it so long as they give changes back. BSD is not an alturnative its different sure you don't have to worry about courts.. but thats cos you have nothing. BSD more "Commerical", why should I care if its commerical or not? Why should I care if someone is UNABLE to make a buck from my work due to the licence? Don't like that? Tuff write your own code or licence someone elses.

    James