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Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc



On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, ok, but mplayer was rejected, and is now in many-year-NEW-limbo, for
> > licencing reasons, which i believe are the same for ubuntu and debian, maybe
> > worse for ubuntu evem.
> 
> No, Ubuntu has quite different licensing criteria than Debian.
> 
> > Also, many of the key persons behind mplayers rejection back then now work at
> > ubuntu, right ? 
> 
> I don't know who rejected mplayer, so I can't answer this directly, but I am
> confident that "many" is exagerrated FUD regardless.

elmo did, i think.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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