On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsm...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:41:45AM +0200, Harald Sitter wrote: >> During last akademy I brought up the possibility of killing >> phonon-gstreamer and going vlc-only in Phonon. While this discussion >> happened on a private packager list I can not point to it but the gist >> of it was that Fedora doesn't have VLC, OpenSUSE has a "crippled" VLC >> and Slackware doesn't have any packages and probably will not ever. > > Why don't they provide VLC? > > >> KDE Sysadmins raised concerns that we wouldn't be able to provide VLC >> in any sort of bundled binary fashion as our mirror network covers >> many jurisdictions where VLC might be problematic (not that I think we >> would want to distribute binaries containing VLC anyway although it is >> very much a possibility with windows/osx I have been told). > > Videolan itself has a ton of mirrors all over the world, which parts of the > world does KDE have mirrors that Videolan doesn't? (And also same question > as above.)
We can't speak for our mirrors in terms of legal risk - those hosting VLC in the questionable countries may have decided they'll take the risk. The USA is the obvious problem country there... > > And in my humble opinion, that some distros cripple themselves shouldn't be > our problem... If a distro doesn't provide what users need, users should use > another distro. > > -- > Martin Sandsmark Cheers, Ben > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
