I was asked to comment on this as FFmpeg maintainer in Debian. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:34:10 (CEST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <aanlktimrba0hxth3kq-fik9g57m8iqbzcjf1f0ryy...@mail.gmail.com>, Praveen A > wrote: >>I was reading through the wiki and found this, >> >>* Debian does not include software that is encumbered by software patents. >> >>This statement is correct for Fedora, but we have many *known* patent >>encumbered software in our repos like mp3 codec, ffmpeg etc. So I >>think, this item can be removed. Debian does not include software that is encumbered by *actively enforced* software patents. > I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to > legal risk to SPI. I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia > repositories which, while good, are not official. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522373 No need to further push on this bug right now, AFAIUI our DPL is working with ftpteam on it. Also there has been a related bit in his latest DebConf10 report to d-d-a on that topic. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwxu59ln....@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
