[Mageia-dev] cinelerra (war Re: rehashing the faac issue)

Wed Oct 31 14:14:17 CET 2012

Le 31/10/2012 12:57, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
+> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>
+>> Le 31/10/2012 10:23, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
+>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>
+>>>> Given the importance of this package for several multimedia-related
+>>>> software (it is a mandatory dependency for cinerella, for instance), I
+>>>> think it's time
+>>>
+>>> Do you have a cinelerra source rpm that builds against cauldron ffmpeg?
+>>> And we can build it without AAC encoding support I think.
+>> No. Otherwise, I wouldn't have opened this painful discussion again.
+>
+> Isn't cinelerra licensed under the GPLv2+, which means we are not
+> allowed to distribute binaries linked against a non-free library? It
+> looks like the faac discussion is not painful but completely useless.
+I wasn't aware of such kind of restriction, but it reminds me of similar 
+cases in the past. Anyway, faac isn't only used for cinelerra, and even 
+if we can't distribute it, having one less ancestor to rebuild manually 
+is still a gain.
+
+> Who wants to maintain this package? I built it and it appears to work
+> but complains a bit - maybe due to cauldron ffmpeg - and crashes when
+> trying to output AAC ("mp4a") because I forgot to remove that UI option.
+This is a distinct issue.
+
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #14:
+
+sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support
+