[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue
AL13N
alien at rmail.be
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.
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