Include MPlayer in beta?

[Bryan W. Headley]

William Hooper wrote:
> Botoaca Andrei said:
> 
>>For any readers of this POST! Read the mplayer site news, you can find
>>them
>>at www.mplayerhq.hu ...
>>Suse added MPlayer to their distro, and they shouldn't have done this ...
>>
>>Read it, it's quite interesting ...
> 
> 
> Yes, it is interesting that someone that claims to be against software
> patents is threating to patent their software...
> 
> "I (A'rpi) want to ask all of those distributions to consider dropping
> MPlayer packages completely instead of shipping unusable crippled files!
> Our motto: if you can't do it right, you better don't do it at all! Users
> can still download the sources and compile them at their own
> responsibilty. We do know the legal issues well, but since the whole
> multimedia industry is completely covered by various patents, it's
> impossible to create a decent free multimedia player without breaking most
> of these patents. I'm even considering patenting my A-V sync algorithms
> used in MPlayer G2, to prevent unwanted crippled distribution of the next
> generation code, but I hope they will recognize their fault in time, and I
> won't have to do so."

Funny, I read it the other way: "..to prevent unwanted crippled 
distribution..." He doesn't want the package to be associated with the 
crippled functionality certain packagers have visited on mplayer, and is 
mulling what he can do. I appreciate his problem...

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