[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use external libs to handle rar subtitles

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:44:49PM +0800, Zuxy wrote:
> 2005/10/25, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com>:
> > 2005/10/24, Zuxy <zuxy.meng at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Patch rejected.
> >
> > You should not remove the current build-in GPL  support for rar, as
> > user may not have the propriately unrar3 lib.
> > So you need to let configure check for unrar3 lib. Then make mplayer
> > use build-in _or_ unrar3.
> 
> Users have libunrar.so or they can hardly decompress anything, as most
> rar archives today are v3.

I don't have libunrar.so, I just have a standalone unrar program I
compiled from leaked source before it was public. :) Or something like
that..

> Though not GPL'ed, libunrar.so is an open-source freeware. I see no

It is not open source. The license is highly nonfree and does not meet
the open source definition, the DFSG, or the FSF definition of free.

Rich