Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featuredaudioand video player
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:05:24PM -0500, Derek J Witt wrote:
> Good afternoon, everyone.
>
> I have noticed this thread about the legality of MPlayer and what not
> on this and the debian-legal mailing list.
> This is my take on this. Much of the codecs supported in mplayer were
> at one point technically illegal to redistribute (e.g. RealPlayer,
> Microsoft's Windows Media, QuickTime Sorensen 3.0). Due to this, I can
> understand how mplayer's licensing terms were written (It's closer to
> a BSD-style license in that binaries weren't legal to distribute,but
> in reverse). For this reason, I propose that mplayer be placed in
> Debian via non-free.
Stop the nonsense. MPlayer license allows binary distribution nowadays.
If we dont do it is because the license problem regarding codecs and
windows libraries.
Jesse
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