[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage index.html, 1.34, 1.35 index-de.html, 1.1, NONE index-es.html, 1.5, NONE index-fr.html, 1.4, NONE index-hu_HU.html, 1.11, NONE index-it.html, 1.7, NONE index-pl.html, 1.3, NONE index-pt_BR.html, 1.7, NONE

Mon Jul 11 17:28:23 CEST 2005

CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS

Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv31783

Modified Files:
	index.html 
Removed Files:
	index-de.html index-es.html index-fr.html index-hu_HU.html 
	index-it.html index-pl.html index-pt_BR.html 
Log Message:
The software patent battle in the EU is over for now.


Index: index.html
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retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.34 -r1.35

--- index.html	1 Jul 2005 19:57:35 -0000	1.34
+++ index.html	11 Jul 2005 15:28:20 -0000	1.35
@@ -1,104 +1,14 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html>
-
 <head>
-	<title>Free Software Multimedia Threatened by Software Patents</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
-	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="design7/default.css">
+<title>Entering MPlayer homepage</title>
+<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=design7/news.html">
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
+<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/png">
 </head>
-
-<body style="padding:1em;">
-
-<p>
-	<b>Translations:</b> 
-	<a href="index-de.html">German</a>, 
-	<a href="index-es.html">Spanish</a>, 
-	<a href="index-fr.html">French</a>, 
-	<a href="index-hu_HU.html">Hungarian</a>, 
-	<a href="index-it.html">Italian</a>, 
-	<a href="index-pt_BR.html">Brazilian Portuguese</a>, 
-	<a href="index-pl.html">Polish</a>
-	<br>
-</p>
-
-<hr>
-
-<h1>The end draws near...</h1>
-
-<p>
-<strong>
-	Multimedia is a
-	<a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/Mpegla05En">patent minefield</a>.
-	All important techniques, formats and standards are covered by broad
-	and trivial patents that harm progress and make independent
-	implementations hard or impossible. Thus MPlayer and the
-	other free software multimedia players, like
-	<a href="http://xinehq.de/">xine</a>,
-	<a href="http://videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a>,
-	<a href="http://avifile.sf.net/">avifile</a>,
-	<a href="http://gstreamer.net/">gstreamer</a>
-	and especially <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFmpeg</a>, which
-	provides the framework all of the above players use, are seriously
-	threatened by software patents. Already companies are succeeding
-	at driving multimedia libraries out of existence with
-	<a href="http://videolan.org/libdca.html">legal threats</a>.
-</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-	The Council of the European Union has adopted its so-called
-	"Common	Position" on software patents,
-	<a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En">violating democratic rules and procedures</a>
-	to the sole benefit of big multinational (mostly non-European)
-	corporations and Ireland and to the detriment of small and medium
-	sized businesses (which comprise the majority of the European
-	software industry) and free software.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-	If the European Parliament fails to rally an absolute majority (367)
-	of all members of the European Parliament - not just an absolute
-	majority of the attending members - for substantial amendments in
-	July, then the Council's directive will become law and the hunting
-	season for US-style software patent enforcement in Europe will begin.
-	Such a majority is hard to come by in a parliament with a low
-	attendance level.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-	But not all is lost yet as long as <strong>you</strong> decide it is
-	time to make a difference and take action. This is our last opportunity
-	to fend off software patents worldwide, there will be no second chance
-	for the foreseeable future.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-	<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org">Signing petitions</a> will not
-	suffice. Contact your local EU representatives and educate them why
-	<a href="http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/industry-at-risk.html">software patents are a bad idea in the first place</a>
-	and why they <strong>must</strong> attend that parliament session to
-	vote against them. Make it clear that they need to stop the
-	<a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/LtrFfiiCons050308En">machinations of the Council of the European Union</a>
-	and reaffirm the power of the EU parliament, the only democratically
-	elected EU institution.
-	For in-depth information and starting points to get active visit the
-	<a href="http://noepatents.eu.org/index.php/NO_Software_Patents">NO Software Patents!</a>
-	campaign, the
-	<a href="http://swpat.ffii.org">software patent page of the FFII</a> and
-	<a href="http://nosoftwarepatents.com">NoSoftwarePatents.com</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-	Wish us luck, we will need it.
-</p>
-
-<hr>
-
-<p>
-	<a href="design7/news.html">Enter the MPlayer homepage while it is
-	still available.</a>
-</p>
-
+<body>
+If you are not automatically redirected, click
+<a href="design7/news.html">this link to our news page</a>.
 </body>
-
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