[Libcdio-devel] Re: GPLv3?

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

Burkhard Plaum <address@hidden> writes:

> - Therefore all projects, which borrowed code from MPlayer, should be
>   GPL-v2 too (e.g. xine). If they are GPL-v2+, they violate the
>   license.

Actually no. Almost all the code in xine is GPL 2 or later. The
"borrowed" from MPlayer limits mostly to the win32 codecs loader, so
_that_ plugin would be incompatible with GPL 3, not the whole
thing. Well, that and a couple others that have uncertain licenses up to
now.

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