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. You are free to use it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as described in the LICENSE file. MPlayer as a whole is copyrighted by the MPlayer team. Individual copyright notices can be found in the file headers. Furthermore, MPlayer includes code from several external sources: Name: FFmpeg Version: Subversion HEAD Homepage: http://www.ffmpeg.org Directory: libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libpostproc Copyright: Many, see individual files for copyright notices. License: GNU Lesser General Public License, some parts GNU General Public License, GNU General Public License when combined Name: FAAD2 Version: 2.1 beta (20040915 CVS snapshot) + fixes and portability patches Homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com Directory: libfaad2 Copyright: 2003-2004 M. Bakker, Ahead Software AG, http://www.nero.com License: GNU General Public License Name: GSM 06.10 library Version: patchlevel 10 Homepage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html Directory: libmpcodecs/native/ Copyright: 1992 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, TU Berlin License: permissive, see libmpcodecs/native/xa_gsm.c Name: liba52 Version: 0.7.4 + patches Homepage: http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ Directory: liba52 Copyright: 1999-2000 Aaron Holtzman 2000-2001 Michel Lespinasse 2000 Yuqing Deng 2002 Nick Kurshev 2004 Romain Dolbeau License: GNU General Public License Name: libdvdcss Version: Subversion r208 (post 1.2.9 release) Homepage: http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ Directory: libdvdcss Copyright: 1998-2006 VideoLAN License: GNU General Public License Name: libdvdread Version: 0.9.7 + patches Homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/development.shtml Directory: dvdread Copyright: 1998, 1999 Eric Smith 1999 Christian Wolff for convergence integrated media 2000-2001 Billy Biggs , 2001-2002 Samuel Hocevar , 2000-2003 Björn Englund , 2000-2003 Håkan Hjort License: GNU General Public License Name: libmpeg2 Version: 0.4.1 + patches Homepage: http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpeg2 Copyright: 1999-2000 Aaron Holtzman 2000-2003 Michel Lespinasse 2002-2003 Falk Hueffner 2003 David S. Miller 2003 Regis Duchesne 2003 Peter Gubanov License: GNU General Public License Name: mpg123 Version: 0.59s + significant changes Homepage: http://www.mpg123.de/ Directory: mp3lib Copyright: 1995-1999 by Michael Hipp 2004 Romain Dolbeau 2006 Zuxy Meng License: GNU General Public License Name: librtsp Version: xine CVS 2003/04/10 + patches Homepage: http://www.xinehq.de Directory: stream/librtsp/ Copyright: 2000-2002 the xine project License: GNU General Public License Name: realrtsp Version: xine CVS 2003/04/17 + patches Homepage: http://www.xinehq.de Directory: stream/realrtsp/ Copyright: 2002 the xine project License: GNU General Public License Name: pnm protocol implementation Version: xine CVS 2002/12/26 + patches Homepage: 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 Homepage: http://id3edit.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpdemux/genres.h Copyright: 2001 Jason Carter License: GNU General Public License Name: FreeSDP Version: 0.4.1 Homepage: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freesdp/ Directory: stream/freesdp/ Copyright: 2001-2003 Federico Montesino Pouzols License: GNU General Public License Name: MJPEG Tools Version: post 2001-12-03 release or CVS snapshot Homepage: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpdemux/yuv4mpeg* Copyright: 2001 Matthew J. Marjanovic 2001 Andrew Stevens License: GNU General Public License Name: NuppelVideo / RTJPEG Version: 0.52a + patches Homepage: http://web.archive.org/web/20050305195413/http://frost.htu.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo/ Directory: libmpcodecs/native/rtjpegn.[ch] libmpdemux/nuppelvideo.h Copyright: 1998 Justin Schoeman (justin@suntiger.ee.up.ac.za) 1998, 1999 Joerg Walter 1999 Wim Taymans License: GNU General Public License version 2