Re: Bug#176267: ITP: mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featuredaudioand video player
Good afternoon, everyone.
I have noticed this thread about the legality of MPlayer and what not on this and the debian-legal mailing list.
This is my take on this. Much of the codecs supported in mplayer were at one point technically illegal to redistribute (e.g. RealPlayer, Microsoft's Windows Media, QuickTime Sorensen 3.0). Due to this, I can understand why mplayer's licensing terms were written (It's closer to a BSD-style license in that binaries weren't legal to distribute,but in reverse). For this reason, I propose that mplayer be placed in Debian via non-free.
At the same time, because of legal issues with DVD (DeCSS in particular) , it can also be put into non-us, but I think we should have a non-us and a us version of
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