KISS violates GPL stealing mplayer and libmad source.

[Alxemi]

Steal mplayer code (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67928) was not enough to KISS people. Now there are profs of more code stealing (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html#kiss03) in KISS firmwares: libmad (library for MPEG audio) and libjpeg.

Sad news for me, and for a lot of you, I guess.

[bullitB]

It's pretty tough to say anyone stole code from libjpeg, since it's published under a BSD-like license.

[Alxemi]

hum, you are right about libjpeg, It´s bsd and no steal can be done... I apologize :D
And it is only my fault, I just saw mplayer´s page so quickly

[spyder]

Also, how is the mplayer team so sure that libmad was stolen? The MAD site says it's available via commercial license also. I am not saying that's what happened but the mplayer team should watch what they say unless they have solid proof of any violation against another source.

[Mr_Khyron]

i email Gabucino and i got this.


> libjpeg, It´s bsd and no steal can be done...
BSD license says you have to mark the original source.


> Also, how is the mplayer team so sure that libmad was stolen?
> The MAD site says it's available via commercial license also.
The reason is simple: they didn't license our subtitle reader, so why
should have they licensed libmad?