The X-Box Media Player violates GPL ?

It is a shame that people have no respect fot the licences that allow free usage of software.

Posted 11.10.2002

The XBMP developers issued an article telling they didn't make official releases, therefore they are not obliged to release source code. So I guess they can say: "Oh, you have an XBMP binary? It must have been leaked, we are soo sorry."

That's a lie. Seeing http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/download_files.htm, there is a Win32 binary (amongst many else), obviously with GPL license. Please send the source to gabucino at mplayerhq.hu, which you are obliged to do.

Posted 4.10.2002

Some win32 guys made a media player for Micro$oft's well-known "console", the X-box. Unfortunately they used FFMPEG and XVID sources in their closed-source product, and failed to make their sources - and changes to the used GPL codebase - available either in public, or by request - as the GPL license forces them to do so. They can't be contacted because they don't publish their E-Mail addresses due to an expectable threat from M$, or whatever their reasons are.

This violates GPL.

As we currently cannot move against them (not that we want to do so, in the first place), we can only warn the open-source community to
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PIECE OF PIRATED SOFTWARE!

It's a pity that so much people don't give a shit about the tireless work of FFMPEG/XVID creators.

mplayerhq.hu
xboxmediaplayer.de

Written by: Lasse Penttinen @ 12 Oct 2002 23:29

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