OOPSLA Tuesday report and an MPEG Player!
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Mon Oct 23 01:00:32 UTC 2000
>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?
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