[Ffmpeg-devel] CyberLink PowerCinema for Linux

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:12:35PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > It contains more tarballs and a few patches.  Among them is an
> > unmodified version of MPlayer 1.0pre7 and an object file in the ffmpeg
> > directory:
> >
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/~diego/PCMLinux_GPL_sources/ffmpeg/ff_all.o
> >
> > Can anybody make heads or tails of this one?  There is no source code,
> > which they should be distributing alongside the object file...
> 
> That's a few C++ classes (VideoPictureQueue, PacketQueue, Decoder,
> and a few others), some of which use the normal lavc/lavf API.  There
> are also references to Python and SDL, and of course libc.  The
> wonderful tool "nm" will tell you all this.
> 
> My understanding of the LGPL is that there is no requirement to
> release source code to that file.

LGPL is irrelevant. Since MPlayer is GPL and the code is linked to
MPlayer, it's all subject to the terms of the GPL.

Rich