post-install media formats wizard

Murray Cumming murrayc at murrayc.com
Wed Feb 22 17:18:40 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:41 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> reaplayer doesn't need to *sell* codecs, i repeat most of them are
> free/gratis (but not free/libre).
> 
> but we still can't link those binary codecs to totem, because totem is
> gpl licensed, and the gpl doesn't allow linking to non-free packages
> (unless the authors make an exception).

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem/COPYING?rev=1.1&view=log

"
The Totem project hereby grant permission for non-gpl compatible GStreamer 
plugins to be used and distributed together with GStreamer and Totem. This 
permission are above and beyond the permissions granted by the GPL license 
Totem is covered by.
"

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