Hi,
"Krister Lagerstrom" wrote:
> The current solution has the legally questionable modules disabled by
> default, and the user has to manually enable them if it is legal where he
> lives.
But this may be not enough. SuSE and RedHat both ship mplayer/xine
without DeCSS and AC3 (yes, AC3 has a copyright and Freevo is not
paying). The Xine people only have sources and not have DeCSS included
(don't know about AC3). The Mplayer people have a server in Hungary
which may be ok for them.
Freevo is the only project providing everything needed in one
package. For the users this is great, because we need many Python libs
which aren't installed as default. But IIRC our mplayer also not all
features because some windows dlls are copy protected, too. So you
see, we already have a cripled mplayer.
I don't think it's too much to ask for the user to get the mplayer
somewhere else. There are many sites where you can get a fully working
mplayer or xine -- but not at USA, German, France, ... server. I don't
like the law, but I think we should respect it (the same we we want
others to resepect the GPL).
I would suggest the following: distribute Freevo with everything
needed except Mplayer and Xine. Give the users a pointer where to
download these two programs (like Xine does where to get binaries).
If someone doesn't like that, he's free to pack it's own Freevo
package on a server. We could add a link to this.
Comments please.
Dischi
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