Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Lumiere - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E. Villate]

I could not figure out whether mplayer
is really free software or not. According to Debian's site
(http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package)
there are some license and patent issues that prevent mplayer from being
icluded into Debian.
Does anybody know the legal situation of mplayer?

Cheers,
Jaime

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:38:46AM -0500, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:32:49PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Stéphane Konstantaropoulos <address@hidden> described the package as 
> > follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: Lumiere
> > System name: lumiere
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > Lumiere
> > 
> > Lumiere is a GNOME frontend to mplayer the great movie player for *nix.
> > 
> > Mplayer is really good, but unfortunately it is a bit difficult to use 
> > because it is a command line only (mostly, if you want most options...) 
> > program. I wanted to integrate it into the GNOME as a Bonobo component so 
> > that I could preview, or even view media files (mostly videos) from within 
> > the Nautilus file manager.
> > 
> > See it as Galeon for Mozilla, a Gnomification of a great piece of software
> > This is my first attempt at GTK+ and at Bonobo programming, so it is VERY 
> > buggy
> > 
> > Lumiere has been tested and worked (well, it opened the files) on RedHat 
> > 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, Mandrake cooker, Debian (which one?), Gentoo. On 
> > Intel-like architecture, it is not very demanding, like mplayer, you need 
> > roughly 500 MHz of CPU and a graphics card fitted for video. It works on my 
> > K6-433MHz, of course it depends on what you play.
> > 
> > from http://brain.shacknet.nu/lumiere.html
> > 
> > I have reached vesion 0.3, now people want to join the project and do 
> > collaborative work.
> > 
> > Other Software Required:
> > -the GNOME environment (version 2.0)
> > -mplayer movie player for unix-like systems
> > 
> 
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> Regards,
> 
> Rudy