Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin

[Kevin Dean]

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.

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

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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