[Mageia-dev] Ping about the hypothesis to create a non-free&tainted repo

[Anne nicolas]

2011/12/5 Philippe DIDIER <philippedidier at laposte.net>

> Hi !
>
> There was a discussion on dev mailing list and
> something was said about it in meeting on september 21st
>
>
> http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-09-21-19.07.log.html
> ("faac status" begining at
> 19:42:50 )
>

Please have a look on Dev meeting logs, il was decided not to create it for
now, at least before Mageia 2 is out. This was done during meeting some
weeks ago


> This concerns faac and packages been built upon it :
>
> see bug 2833
>
> These softwares allow to create, encode, or modify media files
>  (.aac, .mp4 or .m4a) that are very frequently used ...
> These kind of files don't comply wiht free standard (like ogg or
> matroska ) but we have to work with them ....
>  the same way we can do
> with .mp3 or .mov and others non free standard when using tainted
> packages
>
> Mageia 2 will come soon and maybe it's time to decide what to do !
>
>
> Philippe
>
>


-- 
Anne
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