[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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