Dapper installation notes/Stuff that needs fixing

Marco Cabizza mc at newglobal.it
Wed Feb 15 16:11:11 GMT 2006


> well it is.  you can't just take other software's copyrighted dlls,
> redistribute them your own way, and expect that to be legal.
>
> we were talking about patented stuff, not w32codecs which are
> completely out of the question.

I honestly don't know Microsoft policies for redistribution of freeware
libraries and such, but as i said, the mplayer guys have a package with
a bunch of DLL's, I don't think they would do that if it were illegal.
But still, OK, that's OT, I don't want to carry on with this :)

~marco




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