hi, why is mplayer going to be installed on grml? i know this is a great program, but you know that it isnt debian compliant because of its license? regards nico
* Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040923 09:41]:
why is mplayer going to be installed on grml? i know this is a great program, but you know that it isnt debian compliant because of its license?
Call it a bug. ;-)
thx && regards, (-: Mika
Hello Michael,
* Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-23 13:34]:
why is mplayer going to be installed on grml? i know this is a great program, but you know that it isnt debian compliant because of its license?
Call it a bug. ;-)
i am not shure what to use instead of mplayer. does anyone know another video player for text mode? regards nico
* Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040923 14:15]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-23 13:34]:
why is mplayer going to be installed on grml? i know this is a great program, but you know that it isnt debian compliant because of its license?
Call it a bug. ;-)
i am not shure what to use instead of mplayer. does anyone know another video player for text mode?
I don't think there is a better solution than mplayer for playing videos. ;-)
Today we had our devel-meeting (I'll post some more information on it in the next days). All of us would like to see mplayer integrated in grml.
But we are not sure what would be the consequences if grml provides mplayer (and w32codecs?). Is it not to be compliant to DSFG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) so it can't be considered as a CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) or are there any (other/more) legal issues we should think of?
JFI: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00235.html
regards, (-: Mika
Hallo Michael,
* Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-25 11:58]:
- Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040923 14:15]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-23 13:34]:
why is mplayer going to be installed on grml? i know this is a great program, but you know that it isnt debian compliant because of its license?
Call it a bug. ;-)
i am not shure what to use instead of mplayer. does anyone know another video player for text mode?
I don't think there is a better solution than mplayer for playing videos. ;-)
Today we had our devel-meeting (I'll post some more information on it in the next days). All of us would like to see mplayer integrated in grml.
ok me too :)
But we are not sure what would be the consequences if grml provides mplayer (and w32codecs?). Is it not to be compliant to DSFG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) so it can't be considered as a CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) or are there any (other/more) legal issues we should think of?
in my opinion this is the only thing, but a very important too. nevertheless, i will use mplayer too. regards nico
* Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040925 13:21]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-25 11:58]:
- Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040923 14:15]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-23 13:34]:
[mplayer - license - grml]
But we are not sure what would be the consequences if grml provides mplayer (and w32codecs?). Is it not to be compliant to DSFG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) so it can't be considered as a CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) or are there any (other/more) legal issues we should think of?
in my opinion this is the only thing, but a very important too. nevertheless, i will use mplayer too.
So let's decide to provide mplayer with grml?
regards, (-: Mika
hi, * Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-26 12:30]:
- Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040925 13:21]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-25 11:58]:
- Nico Golde nico@ngolde.de [20040923 14:15]:
- Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [2004-09-23 13:34]:
[mplayer - license - grml]
But we are not sure what would be the consequences if grml provides mplayer (and w32codecs?). Is it not to be compliant to DSFG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) so it can't be considered as a CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) or are there any (other/more) legal issues we should think of?
in my opinion this is the only thing, but a very important too. nevertheless, i will use mplayer too.
So let's decide to provide mplayer with grml?
yes i think so. regards nico
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:07:06PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
But we are not sure what would be the consequences if grml provides mplayer (and w32codecs?). Is it not to be compliant to DSFG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) so it can't be considered as a CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) or are there any (other/more) legal issues we should think of?
I was googling again to find more information about mplayer packaging. There are a lot of postings about it and it seems that debian doesn't include mplayer because the source code was not checked for licensing issues by the mplayer developers. So the mplayer developers didn't care about licenses and debian didn't care about checking their source code. My suggestion is to check the source code ourselves. No, not the code itself :-) We should just download the source and look for information about licenses/patents.
greets Jimmy
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Andreas Gredler -
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Nico Golde