One can only assume Debian wants to shield itself against possible patent infringement.
Either way, it's too bad as I personally prefer Debian proper and seeing as some of my favorite projects, LLVM/Clang and even FreeBSD it is a shame mp4v2 and faac aren't as flexible. Oh well.
Thanks for the response and tolerance to my personal frustrations. Still the best Linux distro on the planet. Sincerely, Marc On 10/04/2012 12:15 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Am 04.10.2012 06:32, schrieb Marc J. Driftmeyer:Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Deb Multimedia as I personally could give a rat's behind about mkv and with aac/mpeg4 they work out just fine for my Mac world. Any chance you could provide a non-free version? If not, then I only have one request:No, it's currently impossible. The mp4v2 library currently used for MP4 demuxing is licensed under the MPL. Having it linked against GPL'ed code will make the resulting binary unredistributable.The faac library currently used for AAC encoding is too non-free even for Debian's non-free. We already tried to get it into the archive.Please don't screw with the packaging priority so I have to reinstall Deb Multimedia by hand each time, instead of a simple apt-get upgrade. It's never wise to pee on your user base.We don't screw with anything. It is just not of our priority to remain compatible with an external repository whose maintainer gives a fsck about remaining compatible with Debian in return.I imagine you will ignore this request and I'll have to just keep reinstalling it or I'll bug Christian Marillat to make sure there is a workaround.Thanks for peeing on us in advance instead. - Fabian
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