kaboodle -> kmplayer

[Thibaut]

----Message d'origine----
>De: "Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
>A: "For discussion of multimedia (sound/video) issues under KDE" <kde-multimedia at kde.org>
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:13:31 +0200
>Sujet: Re: Re: kaboodle -> kmplayer
>
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:37, Thibaut wrote:
>> De: "Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
>> >On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:17, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> >> I propose to replace Kaboodle with KMPlayer in kdemultimedia.
>> >> KMplayer can play much more sound and video files than kaboodle.
>> >> KMplayer can use mplayer or xine as backend and can be used as a powerfull 
>> >> Video-, DVD, TV- or SVCD-Player. The integration as a kpart into khtml is 
>> >> also much better. KMplayer is well maintained be Koos Vriezen.
>> >
>> >Legal? Both Xine and Mplayer are completely unshippeable, even when used
>> >as a backend.
>> 
>> why ?
>> What the difference between xine-lib and gstreamer (legally) ?
>
>Ask your lawyer if you want an official answer, mine may be wrong since
>I'm not a lawyer.
>
>Since xine-libs contains patented code, it is legally unshippeable in
>official distributions like a KDE or Novell/SuSE release. They could get
>sued by shipping this (by MPEG LA or Fraunhofer, for example).

software patents are not legal everywhere.

>GStreamer contains no such code; it does, however, allow for custom
>plugins to add such functionality if patent issues have been taken care
>of (e.g. by buying a license) or by downloading manually.
>

xine-lib is plugin based.
US distros can ship the xine-engine + "legal plugins" only.

>Ronald
>-- 
>Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>

Thibaut