what was the end in the argument between mplayer's dev and debian about the license thing?
(I hope they would get GUI to work normaly before 0.90..) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Winner of the 2002 most-annoying-to-compile and > most-dubious-legality-of-code awards (and possibly of 2003 as well), > mplayer's new 0.90-rc4 is promissed to be the last before the final 0.90 > release. > > http://mplayerhq.hu/ > > the release was dubbed "FlameCounter" after a pretty ugly fight Gabucino > had on debian-devel a week or two ago (look for links on his site, he's > proud of his idiotic behavior). the short and long of it is: mplayer is > now one of the best media players in the market if all you care about is > playing flics of all formats with any audio, video and control device > combination on the planet. If you're looking for something legal, easy > to compile and not too tricky to use, stick to xine/totem and friends, > where the gui actually works and less legal spaghetti allowes them to be > distributed by the distros in binary form. Gabucino claims his code is > entirely GPL, but he does compile it against a few stolen DLLs from > windows, and the use of patented algorithems in his code has not been > thoroghly checked. > > for debian users: there is a debian directory in the source, just run > debian/rules to compile, unless you want all sorts of compile time > features. RTFM (there's a lot of it, and it's all over the mplayer site, > badly edited). if you are lazy and want a ready-made version, point your > sid machine to: > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main > > and apt-get install mplayer-686 > > Enjoy. > > -- > All your base are belong to us > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. > Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
