On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > sense. I wonder why they were dropped from Debian, is it not able to > > participate in some of the Fluendo stuff or something else? > > They were most likely dropped because 'Debian is 100% free software' and > some of these multimedia packages are not 100% free. In Debian's > definition of free software 'free' includes 'free from patents'.
AIUI, it's not so much that these are considered non-free as that we can't safely distribute them, either because of their own license or because of patent claims by some third party. If they were simply not 100% free, they wouldn't be part of Debian main but we could still distribute them from non-free. (IANAFM) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
