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The following part of the document is conditionally added for packages that
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are built from stripped sources.
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Stripping of the source code
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WARNING: The mplayer sources as published in the Debian 'main' component have
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some parts "stripped", i.e. disabled or removed!
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* In order to update the package yourself and/or to review the changes done
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to the source code, please see the files:
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debian/README.upstream-upgrade
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debian/get-orig-source.sh
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* In particular, the internal mpdvdkit library was deleted, so the mplayer
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package provided by Debian is unable to play encrypted DVDs. If you want to
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play encrypted DVDs (i.e. almost all available Video-DVDs), please follow
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the instructions in /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian on how to
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obtain the necessary libdvdcss2 package.
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* Please refrain from bothering MPlayer's upstream authors with bug reports
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and/or feature requests, but use the Debian bug tracking system instead.
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Missing features and/or bugs may be results of Debian's stripping of the
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Compliance with the GPLv2, sec 2.a
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The MPlayer sources contain source code from other GPL libraries, such as
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libavcodec from the FFMpeg project, mp3lib, liba52 and others. Please see the
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file debian/copyright for detailed licensing information.
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During the discussions on debian-legal in 2002-03, it was pointed out
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that MPlayer may not be respecting the following section of the GPL v2:
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2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of
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it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute
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such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided
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that you also meet all of these conditions:
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a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
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that you changed the files and the date of any change.
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This issue is pointed out in detail in the following thread:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00231.html
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Currently mplayer ships files such as
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liba52/liba52_changes.diff
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libfaad2/local_changes.diff
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libmpdvdkit2/libdvdcss_changes.diff
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libmpdvdkit2/libdvdread_changes.diff
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libmpeg2/libmpeg-0.4.0.diff
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to comply with this request.
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Moreover all changes to the code are documented in the publicly accessible SVN
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repository of MPlayer.
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