[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

Wed Sep 21 20:41:35 CEST 2011

First I may apologize for breaking the thread
+(a little technical and geographical problem...)
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+On/Wed Sep 21 03:47:31 CEST 2011/  *Anssi Hannula*  wrote :
+>On 21.09.2011 03:14, Philippe DIDIER wrote:
+>>/  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...
+/>
+>Copying reference code is not needed to comply with an international
+>standard.
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+Sorry, my phrase was not clear enough :
+I meant :
+To comply with international standard (ISO), faac needed to be based on
+/the ISO MPEG reference/  /code/  , which is non-free and non GPL, and which is included
+in the sources... everything else is LGPL !
+Texas Instrument wrote and copyrighted this part of the ISO MPEG reference code in 1997...
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+(I didn't mean that simply copying the reference code is needed to comply
+with the international standard...)
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+Hope this post will arrive before the tonight meeting...
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