Re: dual licensing

Gabucino <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:24:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.g2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Roberto Togni wrote:
> pay you with a suitcase full of currency, you will need some legal  
> entity (a company, a foundation, a single-man company, ..) to receive  
> the money.
Assuming it is true, I could think about UHU Linux (a hungarian Linux
distributor), it has the neccessary stuff to receive dough for us.


> that they stole your code: it will take lot of money, time and  
> resources. It's not doable by an individual.
No it isn't. But MPlayer is much more than a project of certain individuals.
That became very clear for me during the Kiss case.


> The only hope (if any) is to have some association like FSF to support you,
> but going commercial is not the best way to encourage them to help you.
FSF = 0


> >(as Fabrice's employer company is using it in closedsrc product)
> ??? Do you mean using code in violation of LGPL?
Good morning!


> AFAIK libavcodec does not have a double license
It does (unpublic), you can see that in the archives too afair.


> So, what will you be able to do with the core alone? Buy a licence for  
> it and then steal all other stuff, assuming that the MPlayer team won't  
> go after you because you licenced the core? :)))))
That's not our problem, is it.

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team

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