Hello,
> Or is it a problem of bundled non-free extra codecs ? > Would it help to move vlc to the non-free section > (with Sun's JDK) to get it in Etch ? No, it wouldn't. The problem does not really come from the licence of any part of VLC itself, but from how the debian/copyright file acknowledges them. Some work has already been done in that regard, but is not yet finished -- Clément