[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Mon Oct 29 22:44:28 CET 2012

Op maandag 29 oktober 2012 22:34:19 schreef AL13N:
+> 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.
+
+guys, i'm just giving all the options here, whatever is possible or isn't 
+possible.
+
+I don't care either way.
+