[MPlayer-users] The Debian Discussion

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Hi,

(Re the pointers on the MPlayer web page to the discussion on the
Debian lists.)

I'm not quite sure what the point of this is.  Attracting support to a
flame war?  Is that really productive?

Firstly, what's wrong with Christian's packaging MPlayer?  I mean, I
got debs from there for my home system, and it worked fine.  If
there's a license problem with what he distributes, surely that's
*his* problem?  Call the police if it bugs you!

Secondly, while I really like the Debian distribution, the policy
issues are an occasional pain in the hindquarters.  Surely, non-US
should and could package lame, mplayer, whatever, even if it may be
patented somewhere or protected under the DMCA, or whatever?  Or at
least, we who live in the free world could have a separate
archive; where some of the world's best software could be found
packaged without regard to the broken US legal and patent system. 

Not having to trawl the net in search of packages is IMHO what sets
Debian apart.

-kzm
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