Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:12:02PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This is pretty much the only thing stopping Debian from distributing >> > it - it may actually be illegal [...] >> >> The problematic parts regarding patents are mostly in ffmpeg, which is >> already in debian for some time. There seem to be no problem for debian >> redistributing ffmpeg. > > Note that debian's ffmpeg doesn't include encoding support for aac or > mp3...
Interesting. Luckily, ffmpeg/mencoder is able to encode a lot more formats, so one could assume that it should be able to stip the ''problematic'' parts. Unfortunately, it seems quite unclear what ftpmaster currently considers as a problem and what would need to be stripped. However, I think this is a problem which is currently handled by the maintainers and ftpmasters. I hope that the problematic parts will get documented properly in debian/copyright, so that anyone interested can read about the problems and decide themselves if they want to work on them. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
