[plug] Mplayer 100% GPL'd
Justin
justin at inwa.com.au
Thu Jun 6 13:42:17 WST 2002
I didn't realise the license had changed. Wonder how long it will be before
you can apt-get install mplayer
Justin
from http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/21/
Is MPlayer Ready For Debian Packaging? With the recently released version
0.90pre2 of MPlayer, some important improvements to the source were
announced. The package now entirely consists of 100 % GPL code and also
contains runtime CPU detection code. This means that any x86 MPlayer binary
can run on any other x86 CPU. Compile-time detection of the target CPU is
not required anymore. A third interesting improvement refers to the support
for more file formats, including the new and very popular Ogg format.
and from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html
MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non-GPL code from the OpenDivX
project, which did not allow binary redistribution. This has been removed.
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