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Re: Depending on a package not in Debian



On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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?

I think is time to ask again in the mplayer mailing list. 

J

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