Re: mplayer vs. xine

[Warren Togami <warren togami com>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:00:17 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>
>
> > Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >
> > > I think libdcvss is already in livna's xine set.  Carrying
> > > flash-plugin would be a good idea, though.
> >
> > Redistribution of flash-plugin is completely illegal under Macromedia's 
> > EULA, and also and unneeded since Macromedia has given me special 
> > permission to maintain RPM packages and apt/yum/urpmi repositories for 
> > the plugin.
> >
> > http://macromedia.mplug.org
>
>
> It would be *much* better if the same packages could be included within a
> repository like rpm.livna.org, so the user doesn't need to maintain an
> increasing list of repositories for individual packages.

Their lawyers wouldn't like this... it took me 3 months of harassing the 
company in order for them to agree to even this much.

Warren