On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Chris Cheney > > | Its all encumbered, there is a separate organization MPEG-LA that > | strictly deals with the licensing. It is quite surprising to me that > | ffmpeg was allowed into main. > > According to rumors I heard, it was allowed in since other > applications (xine at least, I think) already included it. So it > didn't really make a difference -- if we're infringing on patents with > ffmpeg, we are with xine as well. > > (Apologies if xine is not the package I'm thinking about.)
Wouldn't that be an argument to have xine removed from Debian not the addition of ffmpeg? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
