Re: [GNU-linux-libre] A call to free software, and its users

[Rubén Rodríguez Pérez]

> 
> "To recommend mplayer is, in effect, to promote use of the non-free codecs"
> 
> the same with gnash.

Gnash allows you -with no non-free software required- to view animations
stored in a proprietary format, like Abiword can open a word file.

Mplayer documentation encourages you to install non-free codecs as extra
plugins for the program, they even distribute a pack of dll's for that.

Also remember: a non-free firmware file is *not* data in a proprietary
format (like a word file), it is a non-free program. So using Gnash as a
comparison is misleading.