[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Mon Oct 29 22:40:15 CET 2012

AL13N wrote:
+> Op maandag 29 oktober 2012 22:19:04 schreef Rémi Verschelde:
+>> 2012/10/29 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>:
+>> > The problem is the following:
+>> > 
+>> > 1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3)
+>> > 2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software)
+>> > 3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries)
+>> > 
+>> > so we only have 2 options:
+>> > A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia
+>> > 
+>> >    or another one that can go into tainted
+>> > 
+>> > B. add a special repository for faac
+>> 
+>> Looking at the history if the discussion (and especially this thread),
+>> it seems that a third option was clearly stated and approved by a few
+>> contributors:
+>> 
+>> C. Change the definition of the Tainted repository to open it to
+>> non-free software.
+> 
+> D. Change the definition of the Nonfree repository to open it to tainted 
+> software.
+
+(D) Already stated to be not an option.  Then some mirrors couldn't (or at least shouldn't) mirror nonfree, which would be a big 
+inconvenience to its users.  Not having tainted, or faac, is not as big of a deal.
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