> >
> > <snip>
> > * Two-pass-code from OpenDivX *
> > * *
> > * Large parts of this code were taken from VbrControl() *
> > * from the OpenDivX project, (C) divxnetworks, *
> > * this code is published under DivX Open license, which *
> > * can be found... somewhere... oh, whatever... *
>
> If you read the mplayer-dev list, they actually talked about this issue. The
> offending file is the divx4Vbr.c, it still has stuff in it that is from the
> OpenDivX project.
>
I'm not subscribed there, and I didn't search the archives (I assume
that there must be one.) but I'm sure that a few other eagle-eyed people
would have spotted that too.
> > It's not! They just don't care.
>
> Not true.
>
> Ar'pi had only forgotten that that sticking point was there. In the response
> that the snip came from, one of the other core mplayer developers reminded
> him that they needed to either rewrite this class to remove ODX code, or just
> ommit that file to be GPL compliant. This means:
>
> mplayers licence issues aren't final yet. Wait until they officially
> announce it on their website.
>
Yep.
Once they get the issues fixed and we can be sure that it is GPL'ed code
(minus any potentially troublesome stuff) then we can include it in the
distrib.
I'm aware that there's a mplayer rpm available ... must be in PLF.
-- Geoff.
