Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 736 from 2003/2/24
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Sputnik would not be affected, but the plugin itself would be illegal, the GPL works both ways...
You mean that it's not possible to create datatypes based on GPL code without author's permission? GPL sucks a lot.
LGPL is more acceptable IMHO as it doesn't cause problems with this
Anyway... the plug-in system would be a good idea as there are LGPL codecs like
swfdecWould the plug-in be illegal it it used code licensed as GPL v2? I've heard GPL2 is less restrictive but I don't know the exact details.
I mean... DvPlayer for OS4 has a libdvdcss, and this library is licensed as GPL2... would that plugin be illegal?
[ Edited by Crumb on 2006/10/6 7:45 ]
