Include MPlayer in beta?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Bryan W. Headley wrote:

>> In the middle of all this discussion, has anyone noticed that MPlayer is
>> now at version 1.0pre1? If the Fedora guys are hanging around here,
>> what's the chance of re-packaging this version? Apparently, it's taken
>> from a totally different branch than version 0.91, which is apparently
>> not going to be supported anymore.
>> 
>> Seems the point about not including MPlayer in RHL is an easy one. Just
>> don't do it. Seems far too risky...
>
>Let's do one of those "get third party deb files" -- you install it, 
>it's specfile fires up wget, gets the binary from the homesite, and says 
>"well, you knew the licensing issues when you installed me."
>
>I can be pure and I can avoid issues. :-)

Intent is 9 tenths of the law.


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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat