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+And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free... + +Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a +proprietary encoder +(like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely not +GPL !) +But this may induce some patent problems (same as creating *.mp3 files +with lame) +So FAAC needs to go in tainted ... + + +What to do with this f****g non-free & tainted program + + + Thomas Backlund said in july +<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html">https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html</A> + +><i> If there is a package that otherwise matches core or nonfree repos, +</I>><i> but has a possible patent issue it ends up in tainted. +</I> + + + +Anssi Hannula wrote : + >However, the license of software 'x' may forbid (like GPL does) + >distributing a binary of 'x' which is linked against non-free code + >(which faac has), hence it may not be ok to build 'x' with faac support. + +Binaries of faac ; and vlc, gstreamer-plugins-bad, mencoder, +libquicktime built with faac-devel +are available in : +Debian-Multimedia repo +Ubuntu-multiverse repo +opensuse-11.4-packman repo +fedora-15-ATrpm repo +plf repo for Mandriva 2010.2 & 2011 +etc... + +These are well known and well used third party repositories +I don't know if they they don't respect the GPL (plf didn't ?) + +The sources of these programs have some building options (allowing to +respect +patent legislation in some countries...) and the distributions that want +to be worldwide +reachable skip some of these options to build the binaries in their +official repos... +letting third party providing the "full binaries" with patent potential +problems + + +The mageia's tainted repo being a kind of optional repo (some mirrors +being free not to propose +it to respect local patent legislation) may be used the same way as +these third repo... + + +But if these rpms can't be provided by Mageia, some unofficial third +party repos will appear +like for other distro (need to create a new plf for Mageia ?) +or let appear a Mageia International Backport or a Thac's Mageia rpm... + + + + + + + + +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110921/d602b043/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008260.html">[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008274.html">[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8272">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8272">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8272">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8272">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |