ASF spec licensing issues

Hetz Ben Hamo hetz at kde.org
Sat Jul 20 22:59:17 BST 2002


Shane,

I still don't get it. ffmpeg is really small. the asf.o for example is 56k 
after compiling. ffmpeg entirely after build is 512k. ffmpeg is very lean, 
mean, and damn fast. why not using it?

Hetz

On Saturday 20 July 2002 23:44, Shane Wright wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Agreed, and after this (and a message from Roger Larsson suggesting it),
> I've sent a note to Microsoft Licensing asking them to clarify.
>
> Ok, so it's hardly a critical chunk of code - its only a KFile plugin - but
> in the bigger picture it's important that Linux users are able to play ASF
> media files in the same way as other types
>
> Ah well....   lets hope they aren't too harsh in reply ;)






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