On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:12:02PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would be great if upstream would actually care about legal issues, > > licenses and patents in particular. > > Upstream does care for legal issues, and patents in particular. Check > the mplayer development mailing list archive for the last months. > > > This is pretty much the only thing stopping Debian from distributing > > it - it may actually be illegal [...] > > The problematic parts regarding patents are mostly in ffmpeg, which is > already in debian for some time. There seem to be no problem for debian > redistributing ffmpeg.
Note that debian's ffmpeg doesn't include encoding support for aac or mp3... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
