Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Sam Morris: > > I don't see why users in countries where software is not patentable > > should be forced to jump through hoops to get access to multimedia > > software. If this repository is not added to the user's sources.list > > file by default then there is no adv

Re: Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-23 Thread Philippe Cloutier
I don't see why users in countries where software is not patentable should be forced to jump through hoops to get access to multimedia software. If this repository is not added to the user's sources.list file by default then there is no advantage in setting up yet another repository for such

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Jeremy Stanley: > As a sponsoree myself, I'm not entirely certain I understand why > it's any more likely that a sponsoring DD will overlook and upload a > package with the wrong section, than that a DD will upload a > similarly incorrect package he or she directly maintains. Hm, that's true... s

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Sam Morris: > I don't see why users in countries where software is not patentable > should be forced to jump through hoops to get access to multimedia > software. If this repository is not added to the user's sources.list file > by default then there is no advantage in setting up yet another > rep

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Clint Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:11:13PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: How about just using non-free for that? In the past, patented packages like gif encoders have been hosted there, so why can't we just use them for mpeg en