Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
>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 explainin

Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Schulze
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 the 4. right of open

Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Another topic is the ffmpeg part. I am asking myself how can it be > that we have a libxine package (a dynamic library) that > includes ffmpeg, but it is not possible to either package ffmpeg > nor to include it in mplayer ... Gah, if that is the case, I probably need to reconsider, since appa

Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-18 Thread Roland Stigge
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:06, 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 > > explai

Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-17 Thread guenter geiger
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

Re: Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> 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

Respect the wishes of the mplayer authors

2003-09-17 Thread sindre pedersen
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