[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: 0_90/DOCS documentation.html,1.388,1.389

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:20:42AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> >  <P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and
> >    font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his
> > -  <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>. These packages are highly
> > -  unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when
> > -  MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and
> > -  <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">binary redistribution</A> was
> > -  not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages,
> > -  which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not
> > -  a problem anymore, but we <B>do not support</B> these packages!</P>
> > +  <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>.</P>
> >  
> 
> WHY ?

The information is not correct.  And I think we really should not linger on
old fights.  Christian said he was not contacted and there was never any
proof to the contrary.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg00808.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01726.html

I believe we should not insist on this issue, it is not making us look good.

And no, I don't want to start another flame war about this.  I just want to
let the matter rest once and for all.

Diego