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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:50:51
Message-Id: 200304241950.49504.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 by Jon Lech Johansen
1 On Thursday 24 April 2003 19:17, Jon Lech Johansen wrote:
2 > From media-video/avifile/avifile-0.7.34.20030319.ebuild:
3 >
4 > x86? ( >=media-libs/divx4linux-20020418
5 >
6 > >=media-libs/win32codecs-0.90 )
7 >
8 > Requiring these is bad for two reasons:
9 >
10 > 1. Both divx4linux and win32codecs consist of closed source software.
11 >
12 > 2. win32codecs ebuild consists of WMP, QT and other codecs which are
13 > downloaded from mplayer's website. AFAIK the mplayer team has not
14 > obtained a redistribution license from either Microsoft or Apple,
15 > which makes their distribution a violation of copyright law. Their
16 > website is located in Hungary, which is a member state of WIPO (whose
17 > treaties are the basis for most copyright laws around the world).
18 >
19 > Providing the win32codecs ebuild could be considered contributory
20 > copyright infringement.
21
22 Maybe they should be marked RESTRICT="nomirror"
23
24 Paul
25
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27 Paul de Vrieze
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29 Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl
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Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>