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

Wed Oct 31 16:47:13 CET 2012

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+
+> 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.
+
+We are not going to carry faac just for convenience to build applications 
+locally. Handbrake, another application that supposedly needs faac, is 
+also GPL licensed so cannot be distributed linked against faac. Arista in 
+mageia supports encoding AAC without faac. Audiokonverter appears to use 
+mplayer for encoding so it should be able to use ffmpeg for AAC. Anything 
+else?
+
+
+     Christiaan
+