Include MPlayer in beta?
Bryan W. Headley
bwheadley at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 17 16:33:52 UTC 2003
Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Bryan W. Headley wrote:
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>>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...
>
>
> I think someone on friendly terms with the mplayer author..
Wouldn't be me; never "talked" to him. Unless you are "volunteering"
me... I agree that something in the licensing agreement could say "if
you use this, use ALL of it", but would then have to have a manifest of
files/features that would constitute a "complete" mplayer build. On the
other hand, he's using the right buzzword to get everyone's attention.
Anything less than the word "patent" would've breezed past everyone.
> For all the mud we sling in Red Hat's direction for having a stated
> trademark policy regarding their distribution, it does protect their
> brand name against poor quality variants in a way that the mplayer
> author seems to want to do with the mplayer brand.
> -jef"is it bad to be hoping the hurricane floods where i live just
> enough so i can stay home friday?"spaleta
Yes it is. But it's okay to pray for snow days. Maybe because there's
nothing to mitigate hurricane damage, while there IS show plows...
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