On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 6:55 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Jiri Vanek wrote: > > > This sounds fascinating. Can anyone share details about this? On the > > I'm aware of some codecs, which are built in Fedora, then the binary is > > sent to .. cisco(?), and if passed, they are repacked into all live > > fedoras. > > OpenH264 is actually *not* part of Fedora, as Red Hat is not allowed to ship > it under the patent license, only Cisco is. So it gets built on the Fedora > Koji in an unpublished tag, shipped from there to Cisco, and Cisco releases > it in a third-party repository that is enabled by default in the Fedora > repository configuration (but can be disabled by the user, e.g., I have it > disabled because the FFmpeg H.264 decoder and the x264 encoder, both from > RPM Fusion, are simply the better H.264 implementations). That is a very > special arrangement that is due to patent issues. > > I do not see how OpenJDK qualifies for such a special arrangement, and even > if it does, what you want is exactly the opposite of what OpenH264 is doing: > You want to get a build *into* Fedora repositories that is not built in the > respective Koji buildroot (it may be built in Koji, but you want to build it > once for all Fedora releases, so not in the release's buildroot), whereas > OpenH264 is actually built *in* the release's Koji buildroot and then > shipped *elsewhere*. >
I want to make a very important clarification here: we build OpenH264 for *all* Fedora releases and have Cisco host those binary RPMs for us. This arrangement means we are still making per-release builds and releasing those back into Fedora. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
