out of curiousity, has anyone checked out the xmps cvs tree? it has avifile stuff built in,
without half of the cruft avifile has.. hopefully without the licensing issues, as well. from
what little i've looked through the source, it has wine/avifile's dll loader stuff, some mpg123
code (which i assume is not new), and other stuff. is there anything that would make this not
a valid option for those of us wanting an avi player in a debian package?
of course, it didn't actually _work_ on my computer.. but one thing at a time, i suppose ;)
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:17:52AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> > > > I'll probably upload them soon and they will be probably part
> > > > of contrib as I'm not sure about licencing issues for now
> > > > as aviplayer is using some code from xanim and DLL are also non GPL.
> > >
> > > This is a show-stopper -- the xanim code's license conflicts with the GPL.
> >
> > But contrib should be OK I assume ??
>
> If two licenses conflict, Debian has no legal permission to distribute it,
> AFAIK. I already investigated on packaging avifile, and found its licensing
> irreparable :(
>
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