[XviD-devel] Compiling for Mingw32 and Djgpp and more questions

[Christoph Lampert]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Marco Al wrote:
> From: "Eduardo Machado" <dudaskank at yahoo.com>
> 
> You can license your own source code under any license you like, any
> statically linked binary has to be licensed under GPL to be distributed
> though and as such will force you to _additionally_ license your code under
> the GPL as well. Even using dynamical linking doesnt help very much, since
> you would be unable to distribute your binary together with xvid ... and you
> could not use any of xvid's existing header files.

The common solution to this for open-source projects is to let your
application's configure-script check for existings XVID-header files and
library and use them during compiling if present. 
But pre-compiled binaries must not contained xvid as statically or
dynamically linked component unless the program is under GPL itself. 

gruel