>>Ok it's late here but here is the link to OOPSLA 2000 Tuesday. The Squeak BOF
>>
>>Yes there is an MPEG3 player for Squeak for the Macintosh, yes it 
>>plays mpeg3 audio and mpeg2 video but only on the macintosh, other 
>>versions to follow once YOU all get your hands on the source code 
>>and build the rest of us a Window ME version I'm sure.
>
>John, this is absolutely outstanding!  I had quite a bit of fun 
>playing with this, until alas, I noticed that the plugin is being 
>released under the Gnu Public License.
>
>Unfortunately, GPL is not compatible with the Squeak license, and 
>hence, a GPL plugin cannot be distributed with Squeak and, arguably, 
>may not be used together by end-users.  However strong the 
>theoretical arguments may be to the contrary, RMS' strong views in 
>this regard make use of GPL code and Squeak (or any monolithic-image 
>Smalltalk system containing non-GPL or GPL-incompatible code) a 
>legal risk, and possibly a legal liability.
>
>Is there any way we can avoid the use of GPL in the MPEG plugin, or 
>at least get the GPL'd code co-licensed under Squeak's license so 
>that this can become part of the corpus Squeak?


I am working the licensing issue and hope to have positive news in 
that area by the end of the week.

However this should not prevent people from working on skins/players 
and the like since if a substitute is required it's quite feasible to 
use the mpeg plugin interface to interface to a different plugin thus 
preserving any work done in Squeak.



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