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+</I>><i> And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a +</I>><i> proprietary encoder +</I>><i> (like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely not GPL !) +</I>This is simply not true, there is vo-aacenc and there is also ffaac, both from +ffmpeg. +><i> But this may induce some patent problems (same as creating *.mp3 files with lame) +</I>><i> So FAAC needs to go in tainted ... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What to do with this f****g non-free & tainted program +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Thomas Backlund said in july +</I>><i> <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>><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>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Anssi Hannula wrote : +</I>><i> >However, the license of software 'x' may forbid (like GPL does) +</I>><i> >distributing a binary of 'x' which is linked against non-free code +</I>><i> >(which faac has), hence it may not be ok to build 'x' with faac support. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Binaries of faac ; and vlc, gstreamer-plugins-bad, mencoder, libquicktime +</I>><i> built with faac-devel +</I>><i> are available in : +</I>><i> Debian-Multimedia repo +</I>><i> Ubuntu-multiverse repo +</I>><i> opensuse-11.4-packman repo +</I>><i> fedora-15-ATrpm repo +</I>><i> plf repo for Mandriva 2010.2 & 2011 +</I>><i> etc... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> These are well known and well used third party repositories +</I>><i> I don't know if they they don't respect the GPL (plf didn't ?) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The sources of these programs have some building options (allowing to respect +</I>><i> patent legislation in some countries...) and the distributions that want to +</I>><i> be worldwide +</I>><i> reachable skip some of these options to build the binaries in their official +</I>><i> repos... +</I>><i> letting third party providing the "full binaries" with patent potential problems +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The mageia's tainted repo being a kind of optional repo (some mirrors being +</I>><i> free not to propose +</I>><i> it to respect local patent legislation) may be used the same way as these +</I>><i> third repo... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But if these rpms can't be provided by Mageia, some unofficial third party +</I>><i> repos will appear +</I>><i> like for other distro (need to create a new plf for Mageia ?) +</I>><i> or let appear a Mageia International Backport or a Thac's Mageia rpm... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008274.html">[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008280.html">[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8278">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8278">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8278">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8278">[ 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> |