Re: [xine-devel] quicktime demux

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Hi,

I respect completly your license, but maybe we could agree ... I mean if you link directly on the OpenQuicktime library (without extracting some of the code, direct linking to the .so library), their is a plugin mechanism inside... For example, you could let the OQT library decompress the 3ivx data and receive raw frames directly in your quicktime demuxer ... I don't know if layers would be happy with that but user may be ;)

Yann.



On Tue, 18 September 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote:

> > > for VBR and 'ms0x55' for CBR) - I don't know anything for the moment
> > > of the Xine codec plugin API but would it be possible to create a 3ivx
> > > binary decoder plugin for your player with its own licence (I mean
> > > free but binary only, see the xanim plugin licence on the 3ivx site,
> > > www.3ivx.com) ?
> >
> > I'm not a lawyer or any sort of license zealot but xine-lib is (according
> > to COPYING) under the GPL rather than the LGPL so I'm pretty sure that
> > means this is right out.
> >
> > If Guenter wants ro release the next Xine under the LGPL, it /may/ be OK
> > but I've never really understood ehat the LGPL considered a 'derrived
> > work'.
> 
> guenter himself can't decide to change the license that easily (even if
> he'd like to), because xine contains lots of sources from other gpl'ed
> projects.
> 
> such is the nature of the gpl. curse or blessing ?! only time will tell.
> 
> Heiko


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