On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:52AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > But it is not doing a great job with processing a few old uploads. I > > consider it a problem that no decision have been taken on the few > > really old uploads (xvidcap, rte, mplayer). > > One of the FTP masters (I forgot who) once said that the best way to > help get mplayer into the archive would be to present an overview of > the patent situation surrounding MPEG and the like. ffmpeg has such > an overview in README.patents, which might serve as a good basis, as > the core library code of mplayer, ffmpeg and xvidcap is identical. > (libavcodec/libavformat)
That would have been me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00997.html With the additional note that I now know the answer of [6], and iirc, it isn't even this thread, but an earlier one or two threads on the subject ago. Oh well. Mr. Ray has made an unofficial overview page at [1]. Anyway, there was no noteable response to my mail at all, specifically, I cannot remember any mail to myself or to ftpmaster with insights on the patent matter and/or efforts to simply drop it from mplayer (it seemed as if those were not really needed at all for its function? At least then the re-inclusion of it can be discussed later, while the less-controversion bits are in the archive...). --Jeroen [1] http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
