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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62341cb2b --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> + </head> + <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> + Anssi Hannula wrote <i>Tue Sep 20 17:29:44</i> :<br> + >Including faac itself is no less safe than other + patent-encumbered <br> + >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution.<br> + <br> + The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference + code which <br> + it is based on... to comply with this international standard + (nothing strange in that) <br> + everything else is LGPL .<br> + An international standard may not be modified, for sure, and is + surely not GPL !<br> + And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free...<br> + <br> + Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a + proprietary encoder <br> + (like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely + not GPL !)<br> + But this may induce some patent problems (same as creating *.mp3 + files with lame)<br> + So FAAC needs to go in tainted ... <br> + <br> + <br> + What to do with this f****g non-free & tainted program<br> + <br> + <br> + Thomas Backlund said in july<br> + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html">https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html</a><br> + <pre>> If there is a package that otherwise matches core or nonfree repos, +> but has a possible patent issue it ends up in tainted. +</pre> + <br> + <br> + <br> + Anssi Hannula wrote :<br> + >However, the license of software 'x' may forbid (like GPL does)<br> + >distributing a binary of 'x' which is linked against non-free + code<br> + >(which faac has), hence it may not be ok to build 'x' with faac + support.<br> + <br> + Binaries of faac ; and vlc, gstreamer-plugins-bad, mencoder, + libquicktime built with faac-devel <br> + are available in :<br> + Debian-Multimedia repo<br> + Ubuntu-multiverse repo<br> + opensuse-11.4-packman repo<br> + fedora-15-ATrpm repo<br> + plf repo for Mandriva 2010.2 & 2011<br> + etc...<br> + <br> + These are well known and well used third party repositories <br> + I don't know if they they don't respect the GPL (plf didn't ?)<br> + <br> + The sources of these programs have some building options (allowing + to respect<br> + patent legislation in some countries...) and the distributions that + want to be worldwide<br> + reachable skip some of these options to build the binaries in their + official repos... <br> + letting third party providing the "full binaries" with patent + potential problems<br> + <br> + <br> + The mageia's tainted repo being a kind of optional repo (some + mirrors being free not to propose<br> + it to respect local patent legislation) may be used the same way as + these third repo...<br> + <br> + <br> + But if these rpms can't be provided by Mageia, some unofficial + third party repos will appear<br> + like for other distro (need to create a new plf for Mageia ?) <br> + or let appear a Mageia International Backport or a Thac's Mageia + rpm...<br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <pre> +</pre> + <br> + </body> +</html> diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62341cb2b --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> + </head> + <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> + Anssi Hannula wrote <i>Tue Sep 20 17:29:44</i> :<br> + >Including faac itself is no less safe than other + patent-encumbered <br> + >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution.<br> + <br> + The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference + code which <br> + it is based on... to comply with this international standard + (nothing strange in that) <br> + everything else is LGPL .<br> + An international standard may not be modified, for sure, and is + surely not GPL !<br> + And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free...<br> + <br> + Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a + proprietary encoder <br> + (like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely + not GPL !)<br> + But this may induce some patent problems (same as creating *.mp3 + files with lame)<br> + So FAAC needs to go in tainted ... <br> + <br> + <br> + What to do with this f****g non-free & tainted program<br> + <br> + <br> + Thomas Backlund said in july<br> + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html">https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html</a><br> + <pre>> If there is a package that otherwise matches core or nonfree repos, +> but has a possible patent issue it ends up in tainted. +</pre> + <br> + <br> + <br> + Anssi Hannula wrote :<br> + >However, the license of software 'x' may forbid (like GPL does)<br> + >distributing a binary of 'x' which is linked against non-free + code<br> + >(which faac has), hence it may not be ok to build 'x' with faac + support.<br> + <br> + Binaries of faac ; and vlc, gstreamer-plugins-bad, mencoder, + libquicktime built with faac-devel <br> + are available in :<br> + Debian-Multimedia repo<br> + Ubuntu-multiverse repo<br> + opensuse-11.4-packman repo<br> + fedora-15-ATrpm repo<br> + plf repo for Mandriva 2010.2 & 2011<br> + etc...<br> + <br> + These are well known and well used third party repositories <br> + I don't know if they they don't respect the GPL (plf didn't ?)<br> + <br> + The sources of these programs have some building options (allowing + to respect<br> + patent legislation in some countries...) and the distributions that + want to be worldwide<br> + reachable skip some of these options to build the binaries in their + official repos... <br> + letting third party providing the "full binaries" with patent + potential problems<br> + <br> + <br> + The mageia's tainted repo being a kind of optional repo (some + mirrors being free not to propose<br> + it to respect local patent legislation) may be used the same way as + these third repo...<br> + <br> + <br> + But if these rpms can't be provided by Mageia, some unofficial + third party repos will appear<br> + like for other distro (need to create a new plf for Mageia ?) <br> + or let appear a Mageia International Backport or a Thac's Mageia + rpm...<br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <br> + <pre> +</pre> + <br> + </body> +</html> |