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[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

+ Anssi Hannula + anssi at mageia.org +
+ Tue Jan 10 00:38:52 CET 2012 +

+
+ +
On 10.01.2012 01:30, David Walser wrote:
+> Anssi Hannula wrote:
+>> Hi all!
+>>
+>> As I've noted in some previous emails, our core/tainted media codec
+>> split-up is currently arbitrary without any specific logic.
+>>
+>> As far as I remember, the tainted policy is that codecs for formats that
+>> are claimed to be covered by patents should be there.
+>>
+>> Per that policy, at least the AC-3/DTS/MP3/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264/VC-1
+>> decoders and AC-3/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 encoders we have in core should be moved
+>> to tainted section. Note that this will make most current
+>> .mkv/.avi/.mp4/.mov/.wmv/.mp3 files unplayable without packages from
+>> tainted section.
+> 
+> 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 lot 
+> 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 
+> (whether it's your own or for family members that you might be maintaining).  Obvouisly just about every codec in use has patents relevant to 
+> 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 tainted 
+> (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 
+> core.
+
+I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as
+long as we are at least somewhat consistent in what is in core and what
+is in tainted. However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it
+like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not".
+
+I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't
+apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really
+fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is
+much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in core...
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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