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Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featured audioand video player for UN*X like systems



On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Gabucino wrote:
> > It's highly likely that there are other license and copyright irregularities
> > in the codebase as well.[1]
> I can only repeat what I wrote in my previous mail: you came to this
> conclusiong because you haven't found a pretty little Changelog in
> libmpeg2/ ?

No, I came to this _suspicion_ because it took me 5 minutes or less to
find a licensing irregularity in the mplayer codebase. Maybe I just
have a knack for finding them, but you would have expected the mplayer
developers to have known about such a trivial problem and fixed it if
they were at all cognizant of licensing and copyright issues.

I'm pretty sure Andrew Suffield could fill us all in on quite a few
more.

> for i in *; do echo "/* file modified */" > $i; done

The fact that it was modified, the date it was modified, and the
person doing the modification. Additionally, I believe you mean 
'>> $i'. Including the appropriate changelog, AUTHORS, COPYRIGHT,
and/or README is also a good idea.

> That's about all the change that took place in it. :)

Considering all of the portions of libmpeg2 that are commented out, I
highly doubt it. No one makes a library with header files that are
that commented out. [At least, I hope no one is...]


Don Armstrong

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