The Core Media Player 5
Reply #12 – 2004-05-19 00:39:34
He's just not as protected as the QPL could do for him What protection? Protection that noone will branch his app? Protection that he will never be able to close source and start selling it because the license doesn't force contributors to hand over their rights? Bleh. If QPL was about protecting developers or projects, don't you think it would be more popular than the ubiquitous GPL, LGPL and BSD? rjamorim.... I gotta tell ya. It is still is a hard choice for us to use QPL. But it does have advantages that in a media player I think warrants it. Those being what you stated.... Although Ludovic leans towards a GPL approach (iirc Toff does not care)... at this point I am against it for the simple fact as stated above. However as always I am always listening to what others say and once I post about TCMP5 in more detail, I would invite such discussion. i4004... as far as working for DivXNetworks... I am damn proud of what I did when I worked there.... Why? mmm better yet... wonder why I am not there now? It was by my choice not to return... plain and simple. An offer was on the table for me to renew my contract.... but I opted not too. Also.... if you knew anything about me 'Dan "BetaBoy" Marlin' and my relationship to DivX and the community.... then you needs to ask or read up before commenting...... a few facts; - It was my site MyDivX.com that is now DivX.com - I busted my ass in making a kick ass community (only to see it now in ruins) - I was told to not comment on an issues directly related to OpenDivX and the licensing. - ProjectMayo and the issues directly related to the OpenDivX Codec and Decore2 issue is why I founded CoreCodec. - DXN intentions were good for the most part back then.... but behind it as many had guessed were it's 'corporate effects'. My intentions with TCMP5 are nothing more then coming up with a model that can allow monies to be put back into the community (been doing this now for over 1 year like this). Now to go into more detail on my long term plans for TCMP5 but more for CoreCodec is something different. For us it is directly related to getting sponsorship (I have talked to IBM several times about this) and to expand the services for projects hosted on CoreCodec..... maybe something like being the middle man for any third parties. It's a work in progress... but at the rate we are growing... (over 700,000 uniques a month now from all our sites) it's a progress that will come more sooner then later. and hey... if it does work out the way we plan for sponsorship... then GPL would be not be such a bad idea for TCMP5 after all.... but till then.