Plex Nine media center released, adds iOS app
davilla
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2010-10-03, 00:23
osirisjem Wrote:From the site: http://www.plexapp.com/credits.php

Plex is based on XBMC.



I didn't think it would be allowed to just use XBMC code in a project, and get people to pay for it. Why is that allowed ? Isn't that leveraging years of people's time and energy .... just to profit for yourself ? Does XBMC have the right to say "No" to people using the codebase ? I thought if you used any of the code, you would have to make your code available as well. Please enlighten me.

LOL, "forked several months ago" more like several years ago and they have not cherry picked much in the last six months or so. Their git tree is here (http://github.com/elan/plex), not much going on as they really want to move to a private source client for osx that they say would not be based on XBMC code. Plex2.

GPL lets you do what you want provided you release source code that matches any binaries you release. The idea is that anyone can build a replacement binary from this source code. Good luck building from this tree. Its missing critical information on how to build the support libs or even what source code versions they were based from. Plex devs don't really care about the GPL concept except to marginally abide by the GPL license and to use it to further their goals which is moving to private source code that can support a commercial for profit business model. They are about 1/2 way there right now.
MediaInfo : http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/
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