misc/185145: Adjust legal status of mplayer in LEGAL file

Thomas Zander thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 23 19:50:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         185145
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Adjust legal status of mplayer in LEGAL file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 23 19:50:00 UTC 2013
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Zander
>Release:        
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>Description:
mplayer and mencoder redistribution is allowed for quite some time now.

I am not sure whether mencoder should be mentioned in LEGAL anyway, since it depends on lame for mp3 encoding which itself is a restricted port.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Suggested changes to LEGAL see patch.

Patch attached with submission follows:

--- /usr/ports/LEGAL	2013-12-23 18:30:58.493928042 +0100
+++ LEGAL	2013-12-23 20:30:50.861929717 +0100
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@
 mindfocus-*		games/mindfocus		Contains commercial character data
 mindterm-*		security/mindterm-binary Do not sell for profit
 molden*			biology/molden		Free for academic, non-profit usage; do not redistribute source and executable
-MPlayer*		multimedia/mplayer	Restricted binary distribution
 msql-*			databases/msql		Not free for commercial organizations
 mypaedia-*		japanese/mypaedia-fpw	The original dictionary is not free
 ncftpd-*		ftp/ncftpd		30 day evaluation license


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