[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

Sun Sep 16 23:34:01 CEST 2012

Op maandag 17 september 2012 05:12:11 schreef Jehan Pagès:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+> > Hi Jehan,
+> > 
+> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:07:04 +0900
+> > 
+> > Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com> wrote:
+> >> Hello,
+> >> 
+> >> I am looking for becoming a Mageia packager, hence for a mentor, per
+> >> Mageia rules.
+> > 
+> > if no one else volunteers, then I guess I can become your mentor as well.
+> > I am "rindolf" on IRC on #mageia-mentoring and other #mageia channels.
+> 
+> Thanks Shlomi (or should I use Rindolf?).
+> I guess I'll email you directly from now on, if I have questions then?
+> 
+> > Just a note:
+> >> - FAAC: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html
+> >> MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder
+> > 
+> > From what I recall, FAAC has fell into something that is both "tainted"
+> > and non-free, which does not have a suitable repository, and so we decided
+> > against packaging it.
+> 
+> I installed it because it was necessary for cinelerra (It is marked as
+> mandatory component in the configure).
+> But indeed the text on the main page is kind of not very appealing.
+> Chosen extracts:
+> 
+> "No binary distributions are available here, because they require a
+> patent license."
+> 
+> "FAAC is based on the original ISO MPEG reference code. The changes to
+> this code are licensed under the LGPL license. The original license is
+> not compatible with the LGPL, please be aware of this when using FAAC.
+> "
+> 
+> I'll check later on the cinelerra mailing list if they ever plan to
+> change this dependency or if they is a way to install cinelerra
+> without faad. If not, I guess Mageia will never have it. That explains
+> why it seems that cinelerra is in PLF for Mandriva.
+
+actually, iinm, faad is not an issue, just faac is.
+
+faad is just patented (and is in tainted)
+
+faac is both patented and nonfree, and we didn't want to create 10 more 
+repositories for just this one package...
+
+
+> Thanks.
+> 
+> Jehan
+> 
+> > Regards,
+> > 
+> >         Shlomi Fish
+> > 
+> > --
+> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
+> > Shlomi Fish       http://www.shlomifish.org/
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+> > 
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+> > 
+> >     — Pirkei Avot, 4 15
+> > 
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