On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:17:20AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> i have never been too clear about the politics and legality of win32codecs,
> which I assume is the package you are referring to. It seems that on my
> gentoo system win32codecs is a dependency for both mplayer and xine-lib,
> although it may be on xine-lib that divx4linux is an alternative (i'm
> not that good at reading the ebuild files)

No, I'm more talking about internal code to mplayer, that has been stolen
from other sources. One such file, at one stage, still listed Microsoft as a
copyright holder - if my memory serves me correctly.

Mike.
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Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                      ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

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