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



Don Armstrong wrote:
> I was prepared to answer the points earlier in this message, but I've
> decided that beyond establishing a patern, they have no importance to
> debian-devel
Exactly, and (as I already said at least two times) my intent was to
avoid this "GPL/illegal" discussion.


> It's highly likely that there are other license and copyright irregularities
> in the codebase as well.[1]
I can only repeat what I wrote in my previous mail: you came to this
conclusiong because you haven't found a pretty little Changelog in libmpeg2/ ?
(and - once again - see my explanation about CVS repository)


> No. What you need is on every single file in the libmpeg2 directory a
> notification stating that this file was modified
for i in *; do echo "/* file modified */" > $i; done

Cool.


> > Also: our libmpeg2 is NOT 0.3.1! It's a modified 0.2.x .
> It's apparently a libmpeg2 0.2.1-CVS version, with totally unknown
> modifications made to it:
Why is it unknown? Anybody tried to block you from doing diff -u ?


> These are the only two changelog entries regarding libmpeg2 that I
> could find.[2]
That's about all the change that took place in it. :)


> And, yes, Debian does distribute diffs for all changes made to a
> pristine upstream source. [At least, properly packaged packages do.]
BTW, does anyone know where is the source of the "xega" (EGA X server)
package in Debian Bo? Someone swallowed it, just as its maintainer,
oe.hansen


> The above is just a small slice of the issues which have caused Debian to shy
> away from including mplayer.
Is there any character for a half-faced smiley? :7


> > So live with it.
> Debian, and the Free Software world in general has a nasty habit of
> not living with it.
It's your right to decide :)

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team
  "not sure how we will proceed here - xine's potential in the video
   processing field is imho so great that i certainly don't want to miss
   the chance to work into that direction." - Guenter, xine developer

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