On 3/9/06, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was under the impression that debian was all like "only completely
> free software (and we think GPL is borderlined)" and such - where does
> this w32codecs package come from and how does it sit with the debian
> guidelines, if you'd care to enlighten us ?

It's actually from a pretty established non-official debian repository which
startted as the home of Mplayer for Debian and became a host of some
other "expelled" programs:

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

--Amos

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