Mike Beattie wrote: > 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.
Well just had a quick look at there CVS code and yes Microsoft is listed a few times in a couple of sections. The Codecs section that lists what codecs mplayer supports. In comments for a couple of codecs refering to calls to Mircosoft API's (Mplayer does support windows to some degree now and uses directX on windows platforms so I'm thinking they're legal :) ) Comments stating what various modules are equivalent to on windows. In comments in the wine section the loaders used for loading the win32 codecs. egrep couldn't find a single line in the source that contained a copyright refering to MS/Mircosoft. egrep -r copyright * | egrep Microsoft Chad
