Re: Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:03:42PM +1100, James Foster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious about why there isn't an MPlayer package in Debian. The
> MPlayer website says that "MPlayer is available under the GNU General
> Public License v2", so I don't see why it wouldn't be considered "free
> software". Even if it wasn't available under a free license, why
> wouldn't it be in non-free?
>
> Not that it causes any major problems for me that MPlayer isn't in
> Debian, but I'm asking out of curiousity. I don't see why it shouldn't
> be in Debian, so by asking this, I'm about to learn something more
> about Debian.
AUIU, it was uploaded to Debian many months ago but is still awaiting
ftp-master approval. I guess the ftp-masters have been putting off
going near it due to all of the past licensing/patent/upstream
insanity/etc. issues...
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