Re: mplayer vs. xine
Actually, not all of MPlayer is GPL. While the main routines have been
relicensed under it, there are still portions of it that are non-free.
MPlayer devs have been working on removing non-free portions but the DivX code
in it is still non-free. Until this code gets replaced, don't expect it in
official Debian or in KDE.
On July 16, 2003 10:21 pm, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:08:27PM -0500, Antiphon wrote:
> | Licensing. Mplayer is not released under a license compatible with the
> | Debian Free Software Guidelines.
>
> Like the GPL, you mean?
>
> $ cat /usr/share/doc/mplayer-686/copyright
> This package was debianized by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> on
> Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:24:04 +0100.
>
> It was downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
>
> Copyright: GPL
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
> the Debian GNU/Linux distribution in file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL;
> if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
> 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
>
> CP.
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