Derek J Witt wrote: > 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 how > 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. For those who missed the last half year: MPlayer is 100% GPL now, you can distribute binaries. MPlayer's license has nothing to do with supported binary proprietary plugins, and never ever had. MPlayer containED (past! past!) non-GPL compatible codes, which have been rewritten/relicensed/removed long time ago. libdha has XFree license, but it's optional, and only dynamically linked with MPlayer. -- Gabucino MPlayer Core Team
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