Some time around Sun, 21 Jun 1998 10:15:50 BST,
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 12:00:59AM -0300, Igor Grobman wrote:
> > If they all have the same copyright as the 3 i386 ones that are currently
> > compiled in, we can't include them. I asked the author of xanim, and he t
> old
> > me that he got exclusive permission to distribute them, but he can't pass
> it
> > on to me. My attempts to contact someone at radius miserably failed. I t
> hink
> > the way it is now (or will be when i remove dotofiles.tgz from
> > orig.tar.gz) is as good as it gets.
>
> I think xanim should be modified to be able to add codecs as plug-ins
> (loadable modules) without recompiling. That way our users could download
> xanim from non-free, copy any dotofile from the net to /usr/lib/xanim
> and voila!
>
> Now we have to convince the author. ;-)
>
Well, not necessarily ;-). I am pretty sure xanim author wouldn't mind a
patch for such functionality. If xanim was free, I would probably seriously
look into it, but given the fact it's not even in our distribution officially
(since it's non-free), I don't feel like spending my time adding the
functionality to it.
I'll forward this thread to xanim author.
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