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. An
exception is the file libmpdemux/demux_ty_osd.c, which is version 2 only.
Thus MPlayer as a whole can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, version 2, see the LICENSE file for details.

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

Name:       FFmpeg
Version:    Git HEAD
URL:        http://www.ffmpeg.org
Directory:  ffmpeg
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:       libmpeg2
Version:    Subversion r1197 + patches
URL:        http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
Directory:  libmpeg2
Copyright:  1999-2000 Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca>
            2000-2004 Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
            2002-2003 Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
            2003 David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
            2003 Regis Duchesne <hpreg@zoy.org>
            2003 Peter Gubanov <peter@elecard.net.ru>
License:    GNU 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:       librtsp
Version:    xine CVS 2003/04/10 + patches
URL:        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
URL:        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
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:       FreeSDP
Version:    0.4.1
URL:        https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freesdp/
Directory:  stream/freesdp/
Copyright:  2001-2003 Federico Montesino Pouzols <fedemp@suidzer0.org>
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


Name:       NuppelVideo / RTJPEG
Version:    0.52a + patches
URL:        http://web.archive.org/web/20060219034716/http://frost.htu.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo/
Directory:  libmpcodecs/native/rtjpegn.[ch]
Copyright:  1998 Justin Schoeman (justin@suntiger.ee.up.ac.za)
            1998, 1999 Joerg Walter <trouble@moes.pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de>
            1999 Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@tvd.be>
License:    GNU General Public License


Name:       ReactOS
Version:    r25937
URL:        http://www.reactos.org/
Directory:  vidix/dhahelperwin/ntverp.h vidix/dhahelperwin/common.ver
Copyright:  Alex Ionescu (alex.ionescu@reactos.org)
License:    GNU General Public License

Name:       libass
Version:    0.10.1
URL:        http://code.google.com/p/libass/
Directory:  libass/
Copyright:  2006 Evgeniy Stepanov <eugeni.stepanov@gmail.com>
            2009-2012 Grigori Goronzy <greg@geekmind.org>
License:    GNU General Public License

Name:       Icons
Version:    2012-01-07
URL:        http://www.andreasn.se
Files:      etc/mplayer*.{ico,png}
Copyright:  Andreas Nilsson <andreas@andreasn.se>
License:    GNU General Public License

Name:       Icons
Version:    2018-03-31
URL:        https://sixsixfive.deviantart.com
Files:      gui/dialog/icons.c, gui/dialog/pixmaps/{dir,file*,open}.xpm
Copyright:  sixsixfive
License:    GNU General Public License