Does mplayer has PATENT problems that stop it from going into debian?

2003-05-26 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, Does mplayer has patent problems that stop it from going into debian? -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she cursed, that she never would deceive me Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Does mplayer has PATENT problems that stop it from going into debian?

2003-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:19:29PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: Hello, Does mplayer has patent problems that stop it from going into debian? The only discussion of patents I can recall relating to mplayer was in the context of the d-devel flamewar where upstream tried to argue that other

Re: Does mplayer has PATENT problems that stop it from going into debian?

2003-05-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: Does mplayer has patent problems that stop it from going into debian? mplayer may or may not have patent problems, but they are not what is stopping it from going into Debian. Please read the threads starting at [1] [2] for more information on why