W32codecs missing from multiverse?

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:56:31PM +0200, Ari Torhamo said
> Hello!
> 
> According to "RestrictedFormats" wiki page w32codecs should be in the
> multiverse, but when I a moment ago tried to download it with Synaptic,
> it wasn't there. It doesn't seem to be in the universe either (and it
> propably shouldn't). I have multiverse enabled in my repositories list
> and I did also refresh the package list first. I didn't get any error
> messages during this attempt and everything seemed normal otherwise too.
> 
> If someone knows anything about this, I would be glad to hear it. I hope
> I'm not missing something totally trivial here -  but I propably am, so
> I'm already getting ready for an embarrasement... :-)

As someone else said, the wiki page is wrong, and I'm pretty sure it's
not actually legal to distribute w32codecs at all.

-rob

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