On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Review Request: faad2 - Library and frontend for decoding MPEG2/4 AAC"
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370973
>
> Was this reviewed by Fedora Legal (I did not see
> it in the email list archives, but I might have used
> the wrong search criteria).  Last I recall, some of
> the patents for AAC may not expire for a few
> more years.  fdk-aac-free was reviewed a number
> of years ago, and that specific implementation
> was approved, but that approval may (or may
> not) apply to faad2 which may implement different
> parts of the AAC specifications.
>
> I will note in the README in the source tarball
> is the following statement:
>
>   Please note that the use of this software may require the payment of
>   patent royalties. You need to consider this issue before you start
>   building derivative works. We are not warranting or indemnifying you in
>   any way for patent royalities! YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN
>   ACTIONS!
>
> Given the minefield that is codec patents,
> I believe Fedora Legal needs to at least be
> aware of, and probably review, this package
> for whether it can be included in Fedora as
> is (and the README certainly raises an
> eyebrow).

This was evaluated at Flock in the Multimedia SIG workshop and deemed
okay to ship.



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