[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 12:45, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 09:44, 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.
> > 
> > How about "(...) all code is licensed either under the GPL or a
> > GPL-compatible license."?
> 
> Sounds good.

Done, with Wanderer's fix.

[...]
> > > >   - FAAD(internal)
> > > >   - libavcodec
> > > 
> > > I'd leave using internal or external FAAD open.  What about
> > > libavcodec?  What are the drawbacks of not building it statically?
> > 
> > Well, the obvious one is that MPlayer requires the latest lavc snapshot
> > and though there might be another shared lavc installed in the system,
> > it is usually a "relase", so it's old and incompatible with MPlayer.
> 
> This should be mentioned then.

Done.

[...]
> BTW, once you have this past draft stage you should send it to all (known)
> packagers and ask them to give you feedback about this.

I will.

R.

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