On 26/05/2021 19:56, Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users wrote: > On 5/26/21 7:43 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: >> For the sake of completeness, this is not 100% accurate: ffmpeg can be >> built under the GPL license and without the nonfree codecs. >> xpra's ffmpeg encoder which we are discussing in this thread can be >> enabled without those. >> Whether that's practical or not is another question. > > You're being extremely pedantic. I would prefer "accurate". But we're really digressing here.
> Let's back up.> > Sure, it can. Will anyone package and ship it in Fedora that way? No. > Besides the enormous effort to strip out the patented code I don't think it is as hard as you think: don't use --enable-nonfree and do enable --enable-gpl > the handful > of codecs that would remain wouldn't make it useful. It would be useful enough for xpra, in the context of what we're discussing in this thread. (I haven't checked - I assume that the libva code is GPL) > Disabling the > codecs at build time is not enough if we want to be pedantic. Let's digress a bit more then: why not? >> There's a lot more to this than just the patented codec issue: >> https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/wiki/Distribution-Packages > > I think you missed my point. I was not saying "package the Fedora > version into RPMFusion" -- I was saying take your (xpra.org) packages > and ship them in RPMFusion. Ah. I'm not sure what the process would be here. Worth looking into I guess. Cheers, Antoine _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
