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Re: Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?



On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:03:42 +1100, James Foster <jamesfoster@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

There appear to be some legal issues:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113238

Note that the last message to the bug report was on the 16th, so this
is getting some attention.

-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh



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