[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Wed Nov 17 19:51:05 CET 2004


Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:

>> With the release of MPlayer 0.90pre9 all licensing issues have been
>> eliminated and all code is licensed under the GPL.
> 
> This is not exactly true, some code is not GPL, see the Copyright
> file.  It's all GPL-compatible, though, and thus MPlayer as a whole
> is GPL.

See my comment elsewhere.

>>Unfortunately, many of now available packages are crippled
> 
> "many of the now"

I'd say "currently available" (or perhaps even "many currently
available"), instead, because "now-available" it seems to me to require
the hyphen and we appear to have settled on mostly not using those.

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