David Cathcart wrote:
Morphix contains trace elements of proprietary software (nvidious drivers),
That's in the game module, our cd dosent contain that module.
and it has MPlayer which is legally cloudy for some reason, but it has a "morphable" configuration which makes it possible to remove the proprietary traces.
Should we chuck mplayer then? Don't know if there are any non-free codecs on cd, must check.
The binary codecs are an extra package; the legal issues with MPlayer itself are that ffmpeg (which is used by almost all of the free video players) includes patented algorithms; and because the MPlayer developers don't fully follow the conditions of the GPL (mainly, they don't keep proper changelogs)