Re: dual licensing try 2

Gabucino <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:53:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.g2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Those customers would be the real losers, in the case of proprietary
> licensing KiSS et al could just say 'no, we don't have to give you the
> source because we bought a license from The MPlayer Foundation'. The
> MPlayer Foundation would, in that case, have publicly sacrificed the
> right of that costumer (and all other customers) to look at the source
> for some money/hardware/whatever.
I - personally - don't believe in that stuff.

Why would anyone want to recompile his DVD player's MPlayerG2, when he can
have it for free on his computer? :o


> I'd personally rather have KiSS lying about their copyright infringement
> then them saying 'we have permission because we payed The MPlayer
> Foundation money to be legally able to DENY you the freedoms you would
> have had if they hadn't sold out (maniacal laughter)'.
Now, that's exaggerated.

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team

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