[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Lumiere - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> said:

> I could not figure out whether mplayer
> is really free software or not. According to Debian's site
> (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package)
> there are some license and patent issues that prevent mplayer from being
> icluded into Debian.
> Does anybody know the legal situation of mplayer?

If I remember well, there was an issue with binaries
distribution. Distros was unable to distribute mplayer because of
incompatible licenses mixed together. 


I've just checked and found at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html
the following text:

        MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non-GPL code from
        the OpenDivX project, which did not allow binary
        redistribution. This has been removed. 




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Mathieu Roy
 
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