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Re: mplayer, the time has come



On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:46:38 +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> There have been two main problems keeping mplayer out of Debian: licenses
> and copyrights.
> 
> Licenses:
> the upstream code contains some code that is protected by (more or less)
> actively enforced licenses: DeCSS code to decode encrypted dvd;
> ffmpeg and OpenDivx code to en/decode MPEG4.
> 
> Solution:
> the DeCSS  is deleted from the package proposed for Debian

What functionality do we lose by doing this?

--Ken Bloom

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