[MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Jul 30 22:20:05 CEST 2006


On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:34:49PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 21:16 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > I believe we may still have a problem, though.  Our past releases
> > contain undistributable files, yet we keep distributing them...
> 
> I don't think this is a serious problem. The files just have an outdated
> license statement in the header; we DO have permission to distribute
> their contents under the license specified in COPYING.

No, we don't.  These files are *NOT* covered by the license specified in
COPYING.  If they were, there would be no problem in the first place.
Just look at the files that are covered by COPYING, they state this
explicitly.

Diego



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