[XviD-devel] legal question about distribution of xvid

[Wim Deblauwe]

Are you sure about this? This is what the faq says:

Can I distribute Xvid together with my proprietary program?

If your program calls Xvid functionality upon run-time it's a derived work
and hence, the terms of the GPL apply to the work as a whole including your
program. So no, you cannot distribute Xvid together with your proprietary
program then. If you want to distribute, you'll have to publish your program
under the GPL as well. That also requires e.g. the provision of the full
apps source code. Refer to the GPL license text for more information.



2007/11/29, 赵宇龙 <zylthinking at gmail.com>:
>
> Seems you needn't make your application GPL if you only call the APIs of
> xvid, except you make use of the source code of it.
>
> 2007/11/29, Wim Deblauwe <wim.deblauwe at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since XviD is GPL, I need to make my application also GPL if I directly
> > call
> > XviD from my application. However, in the following cases, does GPL
> apply
> > also?
> >
> > 1) I make the XviD installer part of my installer. Windows Media Player
> > will
> > then use the XviD codec to display movies. WMP is started through my
> > application.
> >
> > 2) Same as 1) but now I just provide a download link for XviD so they
> have
> > to get it of the internet and not the actual codec.
> >
> > So I never call XviD directly, but I start a media player from my
> > application that does.
> >
> > kind regards,
> >
> > Wim
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> > XviD-devel at xvid.org
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> >
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