Let me get this straight.
1) The mplayer developers are developing software which uses various
libraries with incompatible licenses.
2) They claim the files are allowed to exist in the same project in
*source* form.
3) They also claim that distributing (or even *building*) the project
results in you violating some of those licenses.
4) They tell you to go ahead and download it and build it.
5) They apparently don't think their project violates any of those
licenses even though (by their own admission) they must have violated
these licenses hundreds of times during the development cycle.
WHAT THE #&@*!!!
- Theo
Will wrote:
>I hate to be a spoilsport, but according to the mplayer website, distributing
>binary packages of mplayer is illegal due to some sort of license
>incompatibility in the libraries. It's also highly optimized for
>cpu-specific MMX/SSE/3Dnow instructions, so it's probably better to compile
>yourself anyway. Look at the bottom half of
>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html for the whole
>story.
>
>On Tuesday 04 December 2001 06:18 pm, Harold Hartley wrote:
>
>>I went to the site and got all the files I would need to install it on my
>>mandrake 8.0 ...
>>I noticed when I try to run it, it makes like it loading and then stops..
>>I have read the man pages for mplayer and don't see anything there why it
>>would do this..
>>any suggestions as to why..
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>On Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:09 pm, you wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:52:33 +0900
>>>
>>>"Nguyen H.Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is
>>>>broken
>>>>
>>>You may wawnt to check this site out...
>>>On LM 8.1 they work for me !
>>>
>>>http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/
>>>
>>
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