Re: [gNewSense-users] codec faq

[ben]

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Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Dmitri Gabinski schreef:
>> Thu, 21 May 2009 11:51:03 +0200, Sam Geeraerts
>> <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Having VLC and mplayer in our repo would be useful.
>>
>> Mplayer is not free, is it? Vlc requires installing codecs for
>> non-free formats, doesn’t it? Or I’m missing something?
> 
> Mplayer was in Debian's non-free section for a long time, but I don't
> remember if that was because of patents or because of non-free bits.
> It's in the main section now, so it's probably completely free now.

Mplayer is under GPLv2. This is not valid for the binary codecs offered
on their web page, which you can use with mplayer. However, these are
optionally included at compile time. A free package is hence possible.

ben
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