Re: legal question about distribution of xvid

Seems you needn't make your application GPL if you only call the APIs of
xvid, except you make use of the source code of it.

2007/11/29, Wim Deblauwe <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since XviD is GPL, I need to make my application also GPL if I directly
> call
> XviD from my application. However, in the following cases, does GPL apply
> also?
>
> 1) I make the XviD installer part of my installer. Windows Media Player
> will
> then use the XviD codec to display movies. WMP is started through my
> application.
>
> 2) Same as 1) but now I just provide a download link for XviD so they have
> to get it of the internet and not the actual codec.
>
> So I never call XviD directly, but I start a media player from my
> application that does.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Wim
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