Le mer 25/12/2002 à 19:42, Casper Gielen a écrit : > Op woensdag 25 december 2002 17:58, schreef David B. Harris: > > > > Keeping in mind that they only support those "video needs" through the > > use of closed-source, proprietary, and in all likely hood, illegal > > binary modules. > > This is FUD. The mplayer people stronly favor open licenses. In fact almost > all code is GPL. Yes, some codecs are only supported throug closed-source > binary modules. Those codecs do not have open source alternatives (eg > QuickTime). However there is nothing illegal in using them. Yes, there is. First you cannot link GPL code with proprietary modules. Second, many of these proprietary modules are not free (beer) : you have to own a license of MS Windows to have the right to use them. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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