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RealNetworks & Helix Community to Build OpenSource Media Player

Gnome Multimedia
Gnome Multimedia

Today at Linuxworld RealNetworks announced the launch of the Helix(TM) Player project.

The open-source Helix Player, with the addition of the RealAudio(R) and
RealVideo(R) binaries, will enable Linux, Unix and Solaris users for the first
time to enjoy a similar level of media playback and SMIL 2.0 support that
millions of consumers do today using the free RealOne(TM) Player on Windows
and Mac.

Helix Player will feature a GNOME/GTK interface along with a Mozilla browser plugin. THe player will also support Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and more.

Re: tons of free licenses are incompatable with the gpl

The big difference is that Apache, Mozilla, Jabber, and PHP are all usable, complete pieces of software that we like.

If RealNetworks released all their software under the RPSL, that would be good. Or if they released snippets of code that we could use under the GPL, that would be good too.

But they've released non-usable snippets under a problematic license. That's not very useful.