[MPlayer-users] Distribution Poll (was Re: Want Less Attitude?)

[gabor]

what's the license status of mplayer?

is it GPL now?

because if it is, we/i could contact mandrake to add mplayer to the 
mandrake distribution ( at least to cooker ( the mandrake-unstable )).

last time someone asked to get mplayer included, they told that some .c 
files in mplayer aren't under GPL ( so they looked into it )..

thanks,
gabor

Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Friday, 14 June 2002, Rob Wallace wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>The best way to lower the number of newbie questions is to provide more
>>binary packages. That requires volunteers who can tell their ass from a
>>hole in the ground - oops there I go with the attitude.
> 
> 
> Good idea. Although I've had reports of my RedHat RPMs working on Mandrake,
> but it would be better to have MDK-specific packages (i.e. compiled with
> whatever good gcc is available for MDK, with specific dependencies).
> Any volunteers? Maybe some other RPM-based distros? Adapting my spec won't
> be much trouble and if there's enough demand, we could create a meta specfile
> that generates specfiles for different distros.
> 
> This might be a good idea to do a poll on what distros are most popular
> among users (and developers).
>