Dear Mentors, I would like to package mpeg2vidcodec, which the reference implementation of the MPEG2 codec provided by the MPEG Software Simulation Group[1]. It provides two binaries (mpeg2encode and mpeg2decode), which are needed by ImageMagick to handle MPEG files.
However, the authors of this software seem to have disappeared without leaving any forwarding address. Moreover, I have not been able to find any information about the license it is placed under. The only thing I can tell is that the tarball is distributed in many places over the web (for example on the ImageMagick mirrors in the delegates directory[2]) ; this is no proof, but it could indicate that Debian could redistribute it too... What would you advise me to do? I would really like to package this codec since it could improve ImageMagick's usability a lot, but maybe these licensing/distribution issues cannot be dealt with :/ FYI, there has already been an RFP[3] for mpeg2vidcodec, but it seems to have been abandonned. Thanks, François [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314757 [2]for example: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/graphics/ImageMagick/delegates/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz [3]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314757
