Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 12:11, Raphaël Gertz a écrit : > > Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 19:02, Rob a écrit : > > > > On Sunday 29 October 2006 19:30, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > If not, wouldn't it be the moment to remove this problematic > > > package ? > > > > I'll echo other people and ask what exactly makes win32-codecs > > more problematic than, say, the Nvidia driver or the Flash > > plugin. > > > > I think the time to get rid of win32-codecs would be when people > > stop downloading it. It'll be a happy day when people can play > > these formats using just free software, but I'm really not > > confident that day is here. > > It's completely stupid to remove win32-codecs from plf mirror, plf is > designed for problematic licence software...
So what is the license of theses codecs ? Who own the copytright on the file ? strings return nothing, and I am pretty sure they are far from being all made by microsoft, as they usually place enough information in their files. And once you have found the license of every files, please show me the part that say "this can be reditributed free of charge". Plf is not about warez distribution, afaik. > And remove win32-codecs would mean for me that : > urpmi mplayer kmplayer win32-codecs > mplayer any_video_audio_file.unknow_format_for_other_player > Will stop working. It is already the case, I have some file that cannot be read by mplayer because the codecs is missing and not in win32-codecs. For exemple, files made by me when I was younger, using intel indeo codecs that were installed on my win95 computer. So I guess that there is some files that still cannot be played, and that no one really know what codecs are used. Given the fact that website like http://www.free-codecs.com show 200 video codecs, and 100 audio codecs, I guess that we have some of them missing as we have ~ 60 files in win32-codecs. Yet, no one ask for them. I have posted to get meaningful and real life numbers, and I fail to see how "I would not be able to read some random file" is relevant. -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
