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Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin
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Brian Brazil |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin |
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Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:44:47 +0000 |
On 2/23/07, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
Up until very recently, MPLayer was rather lax about licensing. They
included code that was restricted by patents.
As of Oct. 2006, they have done a review of their code and cleaned
some of this up. They have removed DeCSS code (illegal in some areas)
and linked against a different library.
Because of this cleanup, mplayer might actually make it into Debian,
which will mean it will eventually work it's way into Ubuntu. However,
it's a recent development, and a lot of people may still have
reservations about using it.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/mplayer
It has been there since October, but it's not in Etch.
GIven gNS's reluctance to include iffy media formats, it might not
ever make it into gNS.
I wasn't aware of any media formats that we have explicitly removed.
Brian
On 2/23/07, Matthew Flaschen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about mplayer-plugin? It's in Ubuntu's
> multiverse, so wasn't imported into gnewsense. However, it seems to be
> under the GPL.
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