[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

Wed Sep 21 10:52:29 CEST 2011

2011/9/21 Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de>:
+> Am 21.09.2011 02:14, schrieb Philippe DIDIER:
+>>
+>> Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ :
+>> >Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered
+>> >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution.
+>>
+>> The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference code
+>> which
+>> it is based on... to comply with this international standard (nothing
+>> strange in that)
+>> everything else is LGPL .
+>> An international standard may not be modified,  for sure, and is surely
+>> not GPL !
+>> 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
+>> !)
+>
+> This is simply not true, there is vo-aacenc and there is also ffaac, both
+> from ffmpeg.
+
+If there are alternatives to faac I strongly suggest, not adding faac
+to any of our repos, after all, we are using and providing
+OpenSource-Software and should follow its philosophy.
+If others don't care about it, we still should.
+
+Oliver
+