[email protected] wrote: > For some reason, there is no VLC player in the packages. Can anyone tell > me why? What non-free components does the VLC player feature to have > been excluded?
FYI vlc 1.0.x from the PPA would install except that libx264-65 is removed from Trisquel Dwyn; anyone happen to remember the reason for that package being removed? What I can find looking quickly is that there are likely patent problems with libx264 in some jurisdictions including the US, but not software freedom (binary blob) problems. Brett - would a GNU/Linux distribution including libx264 cause issues for people wanting to host a mirror of the distribution in the US? BTW according to http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00314 vlc and libx264 will be in gNewSense 3 (which is Debian GNU/Linux based). -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
