Re: A licensing question

I demand that Marc Balmer may or may not have written...

> This might be a bit off-topic, but since xine is GPL licensed, the
> following question arose here:

> If software uses xine-lib by dynamically linking to it, does this software
> need to be GPLed, too?  What we have in mind is to provide a Lua binding to
> xine (which is open source under a BSD license).  But now what happens if
> anyone uses this Lua module (which would dynamically link xine-lib), can he
> license his Lua program still like he wants to?

> Thanks for any clarifications.

That is, essentially, a generic licence question.

If it *requires* xine-lib then it just needs to be compatible with GPLv2
and/or GPLv3 (and/or later versions); 3-clause BSD certainly is, but the
combination is effectively GPL.

For some program binary which can make use of xine-lib if it's available but
is useable without (as xine-lib makes use of libdvdcss) then I for one don't
consider that compatible licences are required.

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