Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments

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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First Motherfucking Post of Goodness!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Booyah, bitchez!

smallmind

[Anonymous Coward]

daniel parsons has no wang.

Well, well, well. It looks like Kiss

[Anonymous Coward]

is telling you filthy hippies to Kiss its ass.

First you steal from SCO, and now you demand that other's stop stealing from you? Pay your $699 fee cocktonguers.

License Review

[m0rph3us0]

Mplayer stealing from other companies = good. Other companies stealing from mplayer = bad.

MOD DOWN, PARENT TROLL, CHECK HIS JOURNAL

[Anonymous Coward]

Yu shud spel betta.

[Spoke]

Um, yeah.

Re:And As Always...

[siphi]

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

Re:GPL == strong

[Anonymous Coward]

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Alan Partridge

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Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Re:Pardon ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod Parent Up!! Or else he won't take a bath for another 6 months!!

Re:GPL == strong

[oolon]

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