[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

Tue Mar 15 16:13:38 CET 2011

+
+Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Tue, 15 March 2011 11:28
+
+> > amrnb-7.0.0.2-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
+> > amrwb-7.0.0.3-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
+> 
+> This one is interesting, because the whole code is free in the
+> tarball,
+> as this download the code from the internet at compile time. The
+> resulting code is IMHO non-free. 
+
+If you look closer you will find that the source rpm actually contains the
+zip file with the code that is supposed to be downloaded. It also contains
+a .doc that apparently is not distributable.
+
+> I would suggest to drop it and to use
+> http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ ,
+> which is more cleanly licensed ( Apache license ). 
+
+Is opencore-amr a drop-in replacement for amrnb/amrwb for ALL packages that
+depend on it?
+A quick google search didn't turn up a lot, only that apparently gstreamer
+and ffmpeg can make use of opencore-amr.
+
+Is the audio quality comparable?
+I couldn't find any indication of that, but gstreamer has put opencore-amr
+into the ugly plugins, rather than bad where amrnb/amrwb are, I don't know
+if that's an indication of worse quality.
+
+With regards to facc there is no equivalent replacement for it and it's
+used by by a few projects so definitely can't be dropped.
+
+Also while the faac license is non-free, it's not a problem to distribute
+it, so the only problem we have is to decide where to put it (keeping in
+mind where packages that depend on it will go too).
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