[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage index.html,1.20,1.21

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Apr 2 21:00:14 CEST 2005


On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev CVS wrote:
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	index.html 
> Log Message:
> Lets not recognice patents. GPL doesn't allow distribution of patented programs.

Nonsense, for details see the discussion on ffmpeg-devel.

>  	MPlayer is seriously threatened by software patents due to the
> -	numerous patented techniques it implements. Also threatened
> +	numerous patented multimedia techniques. Also threatened

The effect of the wording change is nil.  If MPlayer did not implement
those techniques we would not be complaining in the first place.  There
simply is no difference with regard to acknowledging patents between
both versions of the sentence.

I'm going to reverse this, this text is used in several places already.

Diego




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