[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

Tue Sep 20 17:32:46 CEST 2011

On 20.09.2011 13:13, Oliver Burger wrote:
+> 2011/9/20 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
+>> Le mardi 20 septembre 2011 06:32:47, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
+>>> Hi !
+>>> Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for
+>>> mageia1 and cauldron.... after some controversy
+>> [..]
+>>> What do you think ?
+>>>
+>>> Philippe
+>> Well i even initially imported faac & soon after we removed it initially
+>> because of the  patents/license issue.
+>> So if it's now ok to import it there's no reason to not build packages against
+>> it since we do think it's « safe » enough to have it in our repository.
+>>
+> I don't know, what changed our mind...
+> The patent-/license-situation has not changed as far as I'm informed.
+> Actually we would need a repo of its own for faac. Since it can't be
+> in nonfree for patent issues and it can't be in tainted because we
+> don't have full sources for it.
+> 
+> I know, we already had long discussions about it, I just don't recall
+> having found a decision.
+> If we have, please excuse me, if we have not, we should do soonest.
+
+https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+