aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: >mplayer has had an explicit warning from upstream that it's patented; The proposed tarball for Debian has stuff excised left and right in order to guarantee legality. Just check that the patented stuff was excised, right?
Alternatively, I would be quite happy with the response "We just can't trust mplayer's upstream enough to include mplayer; we suspect them of having done something underhanded and including illegal code we haven't spotted." >ffmpeg >has an explicit document in its packaging indiciating it's okay. Ahhhh, the "I stripped the patented parts" comment in README.Debian. All right. Sorry! So, we have a solid summary, which could be a FAQ answer: mplayer should go in if it links to the ffmpeg library in Debian, and its own copies of any mp3 and AAC encoding stuff are removed. Right? Likewise xvidcap, I presume? And rte, as was already stated? (And sorry for not giving credit to Joerg there!) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
