On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > If you do want to include mplayer in your distro, how about releasing it > > under another name than mplayer, so that the real and lovable mplayer won't > > be mistaken for a cripled and unusable application? To quote Bruce Perens > > explaining the 4. right of open source: "if you make a change, you might > > have to change the name of the program or mark out your change very > > clearly" > > If foolish tells me that's the best way to shut up people, > then that may be done, especially when mplayer in Debian is not > the same as what may be obtained from compiling upstream source.
I support this and I don't understand the emotionally led debates about that topic. The alternative would be not to include mplayer at all, which would actually be a capitulation against patents and other evil forces. Maybe we can include more original mplayer features later, but that's another topic. bye, Roland
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