[Fsfe-ie] The Sunday Business Post and the Live CD

[Jimmy O'Regan]

David Cathcart wrote:

>>Morphix contains trace elements of proprietary software (nvidious
>>drivers),
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>That's in the game module, our cd dosent contain that module.
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>>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.
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>Should we chuck mplayer then? Don't know if there are any non-free codecs
>on cd, must check.
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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)