[Fsfe-ie] The Sunday Business Post and the Live CD
Jimmy O'Regan
jimregan at o2.ie
Mon Apr 26 18:04:07 CEST 2004
David Cathcart wrote:
>>Morphix contains trace elements of proprietary software (nvidious
>>drivers),
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>That's in the game module, our cd dosent contain that module.
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>>and it has MPlayer which is legally cloudy for some reason,
>>but it has a "morphable" configuration which makes it possible to remove
>>the proprietary traces.
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>Should we chuck mplayer then? Don't know if there are any non-free codecs
>on cd, must check.
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The binary codecs are an extra package; the legal issues with MPlayer
itself are that ffmpeg (which is used by almost all of the free video
players) includes patented algorithms; and because the MPlayer
developers don't fully follow the conditions of the GPL (mainly, they
don't keep proper changelogs)
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