Re: Depending on a package not in Debian
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> I have been pushing mplayer developers (might even be the cause why they
> do not care about by bug reports anymore) to have the complete code as
> GPL.
>
> So far, as announced in their mailing list, mplayer is completelly GPL,
> except for an small set of files, which can be disabled during build, so
> the package can be introduced in Debian.
>
> Regarding the Win32 libs, they can be left out, as we do with msttfonts.
Is that really the only issue with including mplayer in Debian? If so, why
hasn't anyone just repackaged the source to include only the free bits, and
gotten it in?
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- mdz
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