Hello everybody! I am Diego Biurrun, the MPlayer documentation maintainer, not to be confused with Gabucino, who has made a few appearances on this list before. I am not here to start a(nother) flame war.
I have checked the MPlayer source tree to see what files we have included from where, which licenses they are under and compiled this information into a Copyright file that is now sitting prominently at the root of our source tarball (I've pasted it below for reference). I would very much like to see MPlayer included in Debian. You have raised some legitimate concerns in the past, namely - the lack of a LICENSE file - noncompliance with GPL 2a We now have a LICENSE file and I hope to have addressed GPL 2a with the Copyright file. I know MPlayer has been discussed to death on this list, I'm not here to start up these discussions again, I want to move the issue along. Some history: Andrea Menucci (the prospective Debian packager) came up with a list of possible license/copyright problems on our developers mailing list: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-November/013049.html This eventually led to him preparing packages including a copyright file that outlined some of the things he found out. This has been discussed on debian-legal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200307/msg00246.html I believe to have taken care of the issues raised by Andrea through the Copyright file I added to the sources and a few changes I made to different files in MPlayer: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-December/023040.html I'm not aware of any more problems right now, please point them out to me if there are, I'll do my best to solve them. If you have any further remarks, comments, requests or suggestions I would be happy to hear about them. Hopefully we can resolve the issue in the near future. Kind regards Diego Biurrun The Copyright file: MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy and has been extended and worked on by many more since then, see the AUTHORS file for an (incomplete) list. You are free to use it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as described in the LICENSE file. MPlayer as a whole is copyrighted by the MPlayer team. Individual copyright notices can be found in the file headers. Furthermore, MPlayer includes code from several external sources: Name: FFmpeg Version: CVS snapshot Homepage: http://www.ffmpeg.org Directory: libavcodec License: GNU Lesser General Public License Name: FAAD2 Version: 2.0 RC1, updated to CVS from 20031003 Homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com Directory: libfaad2 License: GNU General Public License Name: FLAC Version: 1.1.0, updated to CVS from 20031227 Homepage: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpflac License: X11 style, see libmpflac/COPYING.Xiph Name: GSM 06.10 library Version: patchlevel 10 Homepage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html Directory: libmpcodecs/native/ License: permissive, see libmpcodecs/native/xa_gsm.c Name: liba52 Version: 0.7.1b + patches Homepage: http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ Directory: liba52 License: GNU General Public License Name: libdvdcss Version: 1.2.8 Homepage: http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ Directory: libmpdvdkit2 License: GNU General Public License Name: libdvdread Version: 0.9.3 + patches Homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/development.shtml Directory: libmpdvdkit2 License: GNU General Public License Name: libmpeg2 Version: 0.3.1 + patches Homepage: http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpeg2 License: GNU General Public License Name: mpglib (part of mpg123) Version: 0.59s Homepage: http://www.mpg123.de/ Directory: mp3lib License: GNU Lesser General Public License Name: LRMI - Linux Real Mode Interface Version: unknown, taken from svgalib Homepage: http://www.svgalib.org/ Directory: osdep/lrmi.[ch] License: permissive, see file header Name: avifile DLL loader Version: 0.47 + patches + CVS updates Homepage: http://avifile.sourceforge.net/ Directory: loader/ License: GNU General Public License Name: dvbstream Version: 0.4.3-pre3 (cvs checkout) Homepage: http://www.linuxstb.org/dvbstream/ Directory: libmpdemux License: GNU General Public License Name: id3edit Version: 1.9 Homepage: http://id3edit.sourceforge.net/ Directory: libmpdemux/genres.h License: GNU General Public License Name: fbset Version: 2.1 Homepage: http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/ Directory: TVout/fbset License: GNU General Public License Name: matroxset Version: 0.3 Homepage: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/ Directory: TVout/matroxset License: GNU General Public License
