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Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featured audioand video player for UN*X like systems



Steve Langasek wrote:
> a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
> stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
All files in "physical" CVS repository contain the notice (CVS comment), and
the date of any change.


> To be fair, I have seen many other GPL projects handled similarly,
To be honest, I don't think this part of the GPL makes much sense anyway.


> that is, does not instill confidence that you aren't committing other, more
> serious license violations.
lol :)


> We don't want to sued by the owners of libmpeg2,
I highly doubt Walken would sue anybody for not making a Changelog ;)


> or by anyone else, for distributing software in violation of its license.
Show me one and we'll fix it, as we fixed them in the past (rewrote DivX4's
2pass code, etc)

libmpeg2/ dir's files do contain a Changelog as I wrote at the beginning
of my mail.


> Thank you for making it clear that you have nothing in common with the
> ideology of the Debian project and its developers.
Huh? I thought that was clear.


> Linus is a nice guy, but he doesn't set policy for Debian
..unfortunately^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team

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