[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorry, but can I add licence lines in sources?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:25:40PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Saturday 23 November 2002 21:36, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> > hi Dariusz and all other mplayer developers
> >
> > I see  that Dariusz is asking to mplayer developers to add the GPL
> > copyright line to source files :
> >  I hope that we will be able to put mplayer in Debian soon!
> i hope debian will ever treat multimedia software like other software, i mean 
> if they would reject software because of missing copyright headers in a few 
> files than there would be practically nothing left in debian, even the kernel 
> has plenty of files with no copyright, just grep it if u dont belive it

Agree, adding 1k to each file to include the GPL info is redundant and
unnecessary. All the code included in the tarball that gets compile is
GPL or GPL-compatible and that should be a plenty for anyone making
packages.

Rich