[Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

Tue Jun 19 13:54:19 CEST 2012

On 19/06/2012 13:26, Oliver Burger wrote:
+> Am 19.06.2012 13:21, schrieb Simple w:
+>> 2012/6/19 Sander Lepik<sander.lepik at eesti.ee>:
+>>> 19.06.2012 03:29, Philippe DIDIER kirjutas:
+>>>> Nevertheless, until it's done and good there's no solution to work on
+>>>> mp4 or mpa or aac files with Mageia2 ... and certainly won't either
+>>>> with Mageia3 ... people who need that will go elsewhere.
+>>> Well, we really can't hold them back. Can we? :)
+>>
+>> Yes we could :)
+>>
+>> We would just need to add these packages. I see that Mageia developers
+>> want to do things correct, but listen this, i have installed
+>> Linuxmint 13 Cinnamon (that uses also ubuntu repos) and i have not
+>> added any new repos and i have faac available to install.
+>>
+>> Couldnt developers in mageia put these kind of packages simply in
+>> non-free repository (at least until isnt found a better solution) ?
+>
+> No! We do know, others (Ubuntu in this case) do not care about such
+> legal/licensing issues, but we do.
+> So only because someone else does jump off a building do you jump as well?
+>
+> Oliver
+>
+Hum; we can also have another viewpoint:
+So only because some countries have strange laws about patents and 
+copywright the rest of the planet should follow-on!
+
+just a constatation; not pointing at or bashing anyone.
+
+
+JPB --dreaming of a "country-dependant" distribution
+