Dear List.

As some of you stated on debian-devel, xine in Debian doesn't include illegal
parts. I have to assure you it _DOES_ . Take a look at libxine1.deb :

xineplug_decode_ff.so 829032    - this is libavcodec, the MPEG4/DivX decoder
                                  Did you pay the royalty to the MPEG Group?
                                  They can come any time...

xineplug_decode_faad.so 164048  - this is the FAAD audio decoder, which is
                                  just as illegal as libavcodec

Vidix                           - unusable ballast without libdha, which is
                                  not packaged

nvidia_vid.so                   - part of Vidix.. Instead it is a
                                  placeholder :) Just contains
                                  printf("TODO") :))
                                  Nice to know xine was packaged by people
                                  who knew what they were doing :)))))))

xineplug_decode_w32dll.so       - code (from Wine) to load win32 DLLs
                                  It's total legal isn't it..?

ASF demuxer                     - Microsoft already forced a GPL project
                                  to remove it (VirtualDub)
                                  I hope Debian is also ready to face this :)

xineplug_decode_gsm610.so       - xine's gsm610 is GPL, MPlayer's is not? :)
                                  Nice.
                                  WE say it's GPL.
                                  Its original author says it's GPL.
                                  Debian-legal says we are all wrong?? :))
                                  Make me laugh.

I'm waiting for your comments.

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team

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