On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:29:20PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > [ffmpeg] > > For those of us not living in jurisdictions where software patents appear > very enforceable, is there currently any way to build our own, unstripped > packages? (Sort of like the DVD-CSS "example" script downloading and building > the right modules for you.)
While requests for reviving non-US (non-JP non-DE) are heard from time to time, it's still not there :( For now, the best choice is the good old "debian-non-legal" repository available at http://debian-multimedia.org, thanks to great work by Christian Marillat. I don't think there is a reason to have downloaders for perfectly free software if you can have it properly packaged, with both binaries and source, at a place where the patent lobby doesn't rule. Too bad, that repository mixes free but patented pieces of software with outright undistributable ones (hence the "debian-non-legal" nickname), but unlike most repositories you don't need to worry about quality of packaging. And there's still hope for non-US-JP-DE... -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
