Originally Posted by DwightFry
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Except for the fact Sompy is looking like TCPMP, any proof of what you're saying:rolling: btw wasn't TCPMP freeware like the source code too
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That was a discussion on the old CoreCodec forums,
linked here which mentions that SOMPY's media player took the GPL'd source code for TCPMP as well as the Haali Matroska Parser Library and incorporated it into the SOMPY software... but without either giving credit to the sources OR allowing their source code to be available to everyone, as per the GNU General Public License (which specifies that any GPL-derived software's sourcecode be available to the community). It's one thing to use TCPMP sourcecode in your own application; that's allowed, under the terms of the GPL - but you have to make it available to everyone else in return... which SOMPY technically has not, and on top of that you have to credit the people whose software you borrowed from (which SOMPY has not).
When the people who created the application say that it's been ripped off, I tend to believe them. As noted by other reviewers, SOMPY is pretty much like TCPMP but with fewer codecs available to it... so I'd either ignore it alltogether, or just consider it to be 'TCPMP' as far as the reviews go.