[Fedora-legal-list] Reasons for not including MPlayer in main repository?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 10/15/2010 03:06 AM, Stefan Parviainen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:53:25PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> Given that mplayer is already available in rpmfusion, I do not think
>>>> there is any merit in packaging a stripped version in Fedora, as it
>>>> would cause a conflict with rpmfusion.
> 
> I find it curious that you are activly discouraging making "freer"
> versions of software, and instead encourage the use of 3rd-party
> repositories containing restricted software.
> 
> In addition to not having mplayer in the main repositories this also
> makes it impossible to include software that depends on mplayer in the
> main repos.
> 
> Since there seems to be so much opposition to my idea I will just have
> to skip Fedora as a supported platform for my software (no, telling
> people to install dependencies from some "random" 3rd party source is
> not a good solution for me).

Have you considered using a sane framework like gstreamer, as opposed to
a monolithic clump like mplayer?

~spot