On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:23:43PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > First of all, many thanks for the hard work that was necessary to get > MPlayer into Debian! :-)
You are welcome :-) > There seems to be still a licensing issue, though... :-( > According to its debian/copyright[1], mplayer includes a file named > mmx.h, whose licensing status is: > > | File: mmx.h > | Copyright: 1997-99 by H. Dietz and R. Fisher > | License: > | THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY > | EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT > | LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY > | AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > Well, this is a disclaimer of warranty, not a license. > Where's the permission to redistribute (DFSG#1)? > Where's the permission to modify (DFSG#3)? > > Assuming the one quoted above is the whole "license" for the file, > mmx.h does *not* comply with the DFSG and is *not* even distributable! > > The legal status of this file should be clarified, in order to get > it under a DFSG-free license. I've replaced this file upstream. Andrea, you can grab my fix from the MPlayer Subversion repository. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
