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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Lumiere - savannah.nongnu.org |
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11 Feb 2003 18:54:17 +0100 |
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Stéphane Konstantaropoulos <address@hidden> a tapoté :
> Le lun 20/01/2003 à 19:09, Mathieu Roy a écrit :
> > "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.
>
>
> Can I get project hotsting then? It is becoming a bit critical here.
If mplayer is really completely GPL now, which seems to be correct,
feel free to re-submit it, normally it should be ok. (see requirements
in the FAQ)
Regards,
--
Mathieu Roy
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