2012-10-11 00:04:08 +00:00
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mpv is a fork of mplayer2, which is a fork of MPlayer.
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2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
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mpv as a whole is licensed as GPL version 2 or later (see LICENSE). Most source
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files are GPLv2+, but some files are available under a more liberal license,
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2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
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such as LGPLv2.1+, BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the copyright
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2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
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header of each source file, and grep the sources for "Copyright" if you need
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2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
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to know details. Files without Copyright notice are licensed as LGPLv2.1+.
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All new contributions must be LGPLv2.1+ licensed, or if the changes are done on
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GPL code, must come with the implicit agreement that the project can relicense
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the code to LGPLv2.1+ at a later point without asking the contributor. (This
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is a safeguard for making potential relicensing of the project to LGPLv2.1+
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2015-07-26 18:23:41 +00:00
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easier.) Using a more liberal license compatible to LGPLv2.1+ is also ok.
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2003-12-09 08:35:55 +00:00
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2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
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For information about authors and contributors, consult the git log, which
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contains the complete SVN and CVS history as well.
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2010-01-04 13:01:44 +00:00
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2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
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Note that mplayer2 as a whole is licensed under GPLv3+. This is because it uses
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a copy of talloc (part of Samba), which is LGPLv3+, and the next compatible
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license for this mix is GPLv3+.
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2003-12-09 08:35:55 +00:00
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2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
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MPlayer as a whole is licensed under GPLv2 (incompatible to GPLv3!), because
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some files are licensed to GPLv2 (and _not_ any later version of the license).
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In particular, this affects the file libmpdemux/demux_ty_osd.c. It is disabled
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under mplayer2, and has been removed from mpv.
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2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
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"v2.1+" in this context means "version 2.1 or later".
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