[XviD-devel] Seeking permission for another controlled interface

[Christoph Lampert]

Hi,

linking exception over a controlled interface was a "bug" in our release
policy, because in the beginning, we interpretet GPL in a wrong way. New
versions of XVID will not contain it, and there won't be new exceptions.

Most likely you won't need a linking permission anyway: As in my last mail
2 minutes ago, it's not needed to create plugins for proprietary
applications or to support non-free APIs. GPL allows all this. 
It's just a question of _distribution_ of non-free derived works based on
XVID. 

gruel


On Mon, 5 May 2003, Martin Blom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if it would be possible to extend the permission to use
> XviD over a controlled interface to "Datatypes" in addition to VFW1.1
> and DShow?
> 
> Datatypes is an API in AmigaOS, developed by Commodore in the 80s and
> 90s. which identifies and decodes files (be it documents, video files,
> audio files etc). The individual Datatypes are loaded by a (closed
> source) system library which applications (closed source or open
> source) can use to identify, decode and encode files.
> 
> There are also reimplementations of AmigaOS (and thus Datatypes) in
> the form of AROS (open source) and MorphOS (closed source).
> 
> Obviously, the resulting Datatype itself would keep the GPL license +
> extensions.
> 
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