Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin

[Brian Brazil]

On 2/23/07, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> Up until very recently, MPLayer was rather lax about licensing. They
> included code that was restricted by patents.
>
> As of Oct. 2006, they have done a review of their code and cleaned
> some of this up. They have removed DeCSS code (illegal in some areas)
> and linked against a different library.
>
> Because of this cleanup, mplayer might actually make it into Debian,
> which will mean it will eventually work it's way into Ubuntu. However,
> it's a recent development, and a lot of people may still have
> reservations about using it.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/mplayer

It has been there since October, but it's not in Etch.

> GIven gNS's reluctance to include iffy media formats, it might not
> ever make it into gNS.

I wasn't aware of any media formats that we have explicitly removed.

Brian

> On 2/23/07, Matthew Flaschen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Does anyone know anything about mplayer-plugin?  It's in Ubuntu's
> > multiverse, so wasn't imported into gnewsense.  However, it seems to be
> > under the GPL.
> >
> > Matthew Flaschen
> >
> >
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