MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy and has been extended and
worked on by many more since then, see the AUTHORS file for an (incomplete)
list. MPlayer as a whole is copyrighted by the MPlayer team. Individual
copyright notices can be found in file headers.

Most files in MPlayer are licensed under the GNU General Public License,
version 2 with an explicit "or later" clause or a compatible license
(LGPL 2.1+, MIT/BSD). An exception are the files talloc.c and talloc.h,
which are LGPL 3+.
Thus MPlayer as a whole can be redistributed under terms compatible with
the GNU General Public License, version 3; see the LICENSE file for details.

MPlayer includes code from several external sources. General information and
license details are listed below:

Name:       a couple of files copied from FFmpeg
Version:    updated to different versions
URL:        http://www.ffmpeg.org
Directory:  ffmpeg_files
Copyright:  Many, see individual files for copyright notices.
License:    GNU Lesser General Public License


Name:       avifile DLL loader
Version:    0.47 + patches + CVS updates
URL:        http://avifile.sourceforge.net/
Directory:  loader/
Copyright:  1993 Robert J. Amstadt
            1994 Eric Youndale & Erik Bos
            1995 Thomas Sandford
            1995-1996 Alexandre Julliard
            1996-1998 Marcus Meissner
            1996 Martin von Loewis
            2000-2001 Eugene Kuznetsov (divx@euro.ru)
License:    GNU General Public License


Name:       dvbstream
Version:    0.4.3-pre3 (CVS checkout)
URL:        http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvbtools/
Directory:  stream/dvbin.h stream/rtp.c stream/stream_dvb.c
Copyright:  2001-2002 Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>
License:    GNU General Public License


Name:       pnm protocol implementation
Version:    xine CVS 2002/12/26 + patches
URL:        http://www.xinehq.de
Directory:  stream/pnm.[ch]
Copyright:  2000-2002 the xine project
License:    GNU General Public License


Name:       id3edit
Version:    1.9 + patches
URL:        http://id3edit.sourceforge.net/
Directory:  libmpdemux/genres.h
Copyright:  2001 Jason Carter
License:    GNU General Public License


Name:       MJPEG Tools
Version:    post 2001-12-03 release or CVS snapshot
URL:        http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
Directory:  libmpdemux/yuv4mpeg*
Copyright:  2001 Matthew J. Marjanovic <maddog@mir.com>
            2001 Andrew Stevens <andrew.stevens@philips.com>
License:    GNU General Public License
