On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:10, Theo Brinkman wrote:
> Let me get this straight.
> 
> 1) The mplayer developers are developing software which uses various 
> libraries with incompatible licenses.
> 2) They claim the files are allowed to exist in the same project in 
> *source* form.
> 3) They also claim that distributing (or even *building*) the project 
> results in you violating some of those licenses.
> 4) They tell you to go ahead and download it and build it.
> 5) They apparently don't think their project violates any of those 
> licenses even though (by their own admission) they must have violated 
> these licenses hundreds of times during the development cycle.
> 
> WHAT THE #&@*!!!
> 
>     - Theo

Just for kicks, go ahead and install on Mandrake.  The mplayer
developers are VERY childish about having to accept that they believe
gcc 2.96 is bad.  On one install, I actually had to type something like
"gcc 2.96 is no good" or something to that effect; before it would let
me compile the program!  Needless to say, it works just fine with gcc
2.96.

Mike


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