On Wed, 08 Oct 2003, Gabucino wrote: Then let's make it clear. > - is xine's win32dll loader modified to deny loading WMV9 dlls > or > - just DLLs aren't distributed Since MS doesn't appear to be suing anyone nowdays[1] for patent violations while causing DLLs to be loaded, we've never had a problem with programs that load them. (wine, FE, does this.) However, since they're generally not free software, nor (for the most part) are the even legal to (re-)distribute, we don't distribute them in Debian. (I'd strongly recommend that mplayer take a strong look at the DLL licenses if mplayer is distributing them.) Don Armstrong 1: If they ever were in the past... -- Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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