Quoting Ely Levy, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > what was the end in the argument between mplayer's dev > and debian about the license thing?
I stopped reading the thread after some point, because everyone were shouting and flaming and not listening to eachother. rough summery: deb-dev: your code implements patents illegally, and you already released in the past GPL code that was illegal to distribute precompiled and other problems (like no runtime CPU detection). gabucino: it's no more illegal than xine which you included in "main", go see for yourself. people are asking me why mplayer isn't, will you add me into the distro, apes? deb-dev: we can't add this legal time-bomb to the main archive, continue this discussion on debian-legal gabucino: you are f&%$^ing pompous, have you even read the GPL? don't you know you are trying to limit my free speech? who needs you anyway? (and so on, it was really rediculous and childlish, sadly) > (I hope they would get GUI to work normaly before 0.90..) 3% chance of that :) -- Almost famous Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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