Bug#81708: Bug#116890: RFP: flash for mozilla/galeon

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:23:12PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:59:46PM -0500, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > There are legal problems (parts of the code imported by that GPLed
> > player are incompatible with the GPL). Please see bug #81708 for the
> > history.
> 
>   The logs on that thread seem to end with a suggestion that KDE has the
> same problem??
> 
>   *confused*....

That is correct.  The KDE maintainer was CC'ed, but no bug was filed,
and no further investigation was done to my knowledge.  That issue needs
to be investigated separately.

The problem remains that the Netscape plugin SDK headers are only
available under the "All rights reserved" license from the SDK, and
under the NPL from Mozilla, neither of which are suitable for a GPL
program.

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 - mdz