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maybe they could do mplayer next

Posted Nov 15, 2006 16:02 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
Parent article: SFLC: OpenBSD Atheros driver is clean

I've never found a convincing, complete statement about the legal status of mplayer.

Some say the problems are just patent problems, others say they include binary blobs from MS, etc. etc.

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Posted Nov 15, 2006 16:13 UTC (Wed) by svena (guest, #20177) [Link]

One of the problems MPlayer had was code without copyright notices. This was fixed some time ago.
http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html

As for binary blobs, I guess you're thinking of the binary code package which is not needed unless you want support for some Real codecs and some other formats.