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Note that this will make most current +</I>>>>><i> .mkv/.avi/.mp4/.mov/.wmv/.mp3 files unplayable without packages from +</I>>>>><i> tainted section. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> That's the absolute last thing I want to see happen. It's one of the reasons Fedora and others that do that are not viable options for a +</I>><i> lot +</I>>>><i> of non-technical users, and it just makes it so you have to jump through a lot of extra hoops just to have a reasonably working system +</I>>>><i> (whether it's your own or for family members that you might be maintaining). Obvouisly just about every codec in use has patents relevant +</I>><i> to +</I>>>><i> it, but I think we're OK to stick with the ones Mandriva shipped for years in core (like mp3 decoding) and things that were in PLF in +</I>><i> tainted +</I>>>><i> (like mp3 encoding) even if it seems arbitrary. If anything, it'd be nice if more not-likely-to-be-problematic codecs could be moved to +</I>>>><i> core. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as +</I>>><i> long as we are at least somewhat consistent in what is in core and what +</I>>><i> is in tainted. However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it +</I>>><i> like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not". +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't +</I>>><i> apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really +</I>>><i> fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is +</I>>><i> much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in core... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sure, I but I think Mandriva achieved a good balance between respecting patents and not being overly paranoid. +</I> +The problem is that that "balance" was achieved by sticking packages in +PLF/main/contrib semi-randomly. For example, H.264 decoders and MPEG-4 +video encoders are in main/core, while e.g. AAC audio decoders are in +PLF/tainted. If one'd put them into an order, IMO H.264 and MPEG-4 would +be much more prominent and tainted candidates instead of AAC decoding... +Also, in e.g. MPEG-4 case we have encoders both in core and in tainted, +e.g. we have ffmpeg in core, but xvid in tainted. + +><i> I suppose you can't blame a +</I>><i> US company like RedHat for being overly paranoid, but as you said, Mandriva hasn't had any problems. Are there any there examples out of +</I>><i> there of distros trying to achieve this balance? Obviously we don't want to follow Ubuntu or ROSA in pretending patents don't exist. +</I> +Linux Mint provides a "No codecs" CD: +<A HREF="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php">http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php</A> + +Ubuntu has a patent policy (which basically IIRC says "rights owner or +packager, please contact us if you think there is an infringement, we +will investgate"): +<A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PatentPolicy">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PatentPolicy</A> + +Note also that the Ubuntu Live CD and therefore the default Ubuntu +installation do not contain any codecs. By default Totem is installed, +however, and gstreamer is plugged into "gnome-codec-install" (which +seems really nice, do we use it?), so that wen you try to play an +unsupported video the first time, it will prompt to install the codecs +(it will also show a warning dialog about patents etc, but AFAICS this +comes from gnome-codec-install itself, not Ubuntu). + +If the user installs a video player depending on ffmpeg, e.g. VLC via +the software center, the codecs in ffmpeg will be pulled "normally", +i.e. silently. + +Linux Mint had also gstreamer plugged to gnome-codec-install, so the +codecs will be installed if the user tries to play such a video with +totem (again with warnings). + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011191.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011197.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11195">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11195">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11195">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11195">[ 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> |