mplayer vs. xine

[Eric S. Raymond]

Peter Backlund <peter.backlund at home.se>:
> I believe the philosophy of livna is to only carry things that are 
> re-distributable, with regards to the author of the software. That 
> excludes RealPlayer, Acrobat Reader, Java, Win32 codec dlls etc.

These are all redistributable in some form or other.  Some have technical
restrictions on repackaging, but that's not quite the same thing as
being locked up entirely.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>