On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Most GStreamer based GPL applications have such a license exception, > while Mplayer, Xine, Ogle, etc. do not, making them harder to distribute > with interesting media support enabled, even if you have license to > the media codec itself.
In many cases, distributing these GPL applications violates the GPL itself since the GPL bans distribution if trade secrets or patents would legally prohibit it. This means that no one in the USA should be distributing binaries for these applications since by doing so they are violating GPL. In this case it does not matter if the other provisions required by GPL have been met. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
