Brian Brazil wrote: > On 2/23/07, Kevin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Up until very recently, MPLayer was rather lax about licensing. They >> included code that was restricted by patents. >> >> As of Oct. 2006, they have done a review of their code and cleaned >> some of this up. They have removed DeCSS code (illegal in some areas) >> and linked against a different library. >> >> Because of this cleanup, mplayer might actually make it into Debian, >> which will mean it will eventually work it's way into Ubuntu. However, >> it's a recent development, and a lot of people may still have >> reservations about using it. > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/mplayer > > It has been there since October, but it's not in Etch. > >> GIven gNS's reluctance to include iffy media formats, it might not >> ever make it into gNS. > > I wasn't aware of any media formats that we have explicitly removed. > > Brian >
I'm confused on this. I've heard some people say gnewsense is supposed to reject all patented formats (even when there's a freely licensed implementation), but there's definitely still patent-infringing code. I think perhaps people just noticed the removal of multiverse and thought that was largely due to patent issues. Matthew Flaschen
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