On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:03:42PM +1100, James Foster wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious about why there isn't an MPlayer package in Debian. The > MPlayer website says that "MPlayer is available under the GNU General > Public License v2", so I don't see why it wouldn't be considered "free > software". Even if it wasn't available under a free license, why > wouldn't it be in non-free? > > Not that it causes any major problems for me that MPlayer isn't in > Debian, but I'm asking out of curiousity. I don't see why it shouldn't > be in Debian, so by asking this, I'm about to learn something more > about Debian.
AUIU, it was uploaded to Debian many months ago but is still awaiting ftp-master approval. I guess the ftp-masters have been putting off going near it due to all of the past licensing/patent/upstream insanity/etc. issues... -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
