Re: Ubuntu System Restore

2011-10-12 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello Bear Giles, Thanks for your reply Sorry for my late reply. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Bear Giles wrote: > Heh, for some reason I thought this was on the local linux users group > instead of ubuntu-devel. Hence the more generic language. > > Anyway feel free to take the other two poin

Re: Ubuntu System Restore

2011-10-12 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello Michael Vogt, Yes I have had a look at your blog post related to apt-clone, I am looking at how to use that in this project. Thanks for helping. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:15:14PM -0600, Bear Giles wrote: > > I've written a few prototyp

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 09:39 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > The Fluendo plug-in is the only fully legal MP3 codec implementation > there is to use. You don't know that for sure Dobey, libmad has never gone to court and it's status is a guess. Perhaps a very good guess, but a guess just the same. Of

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 04:44:19AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > I didn't think Debian had issues with GPL libs though, that's new to > me. It doesn't. There's at least one in the base system. The gstreamer good/bad/ugly split is determined by upstream, not by Debian. -- Colin Watson

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 04:44 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 09:39 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > The Fluendo plug-in is the only fully legal MP3 codec implementation > > there is to use. > > You don't know that for sure Dobey, libmad has never gone to court and > it's status is

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
Rodney Dawes wrote: >On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 04:44 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 09:39 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: >> > The Fluendo plug-in is the only fully legal MP3 codec >implementation >> > there is to use. >> >> You don't know that for sure Dobey, libmad has never gon

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:17 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > Given that libmad is GPL and has not paid license fees to implement > the > MP3 codec, it is not legal. Whether or not you disagree with the > validity of patents or not is irrelevant. It's not patents I disagree with, it's the idea that pa