Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, sindre pedersen wrote:
> I have come to understand that debian is planning to include a cripled
> version of mplayer in its distro.
Why are you posting this to debian-user, rather than to the prospective
maintainer where it belongs?
> The makers of mplayer have objectet to this quite clearly and are now
> considering to use patents to somehow keep people from cripling their
> work and releasing it as mplayer. No one wants this, and no one will
> benefit from it.
Personally, I think that quite clearly demonstrates that Debian should
never include mplayer.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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