On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> > If you do want to include mplayer in your distro, how about releasing it
> > under another name than mplayer, so that the real and lovable mplayer won't
> > be mistaken for a cripled and unusable application? To quote Bruce Perens
> > explaining
> If you do want to include mplayer in your distro, how about releasing it
> under another name than mplayer, so that the real and lovable mplayer won't
> be mistaken for a cripled and unusable application? To quote Bruce Perens
> explaining the 4. right of open source: "if you make a change, y
I have come to understand that debian is planning to include a cripled version
of mplayer in its distro. The makers of mplayer have objectet to this quite
clearly and are now considering to use patents to somehow keep people from
cripling their work and releasing it as mplayer. No one wants this
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