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

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Jul 30 22:37:17 CEST 2006


On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:20:05PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 The files just have an outdated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.

These are the SAME files!!! aside from the lack of documentation.

Rich




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