On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 05:41 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > beyond what's normally considered free software
With this meta package it gets very tricky, firstly because we've got four issues: distribution rights, copyrights, patents and one special case of DMCA issues. Most of the software/content in the package is free software and only 3 hack scripts pull in non-free software/content: ubuntu-restricted-addons (meta) - adobe-flashplugin - Non-free software - flashplugin-installer - Hack script because we can't convince adobe to change their distribution license. - gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg - Free software, lib issues* - gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 - Non-free, not sure why we're using this instead of libmad which is free software. - gstreamer0.10-pitfdll - pulls in w32codecs which contains very certainly copyright infringing dlls (long time since I rechecked this though). - gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad - Free software, lib issues* - gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly - Free software, lib issues*, pulls in libmad (mp3 dupe?) and libdvdread4 which is a hack to install a script to install libdvdcss because we can't be sure if libdvdcss falls under the DMCA safe harbour so we do the wrong thing. - icedtea6-plugin - Free software, but lots of users want the non free Sun java-plugin because yahoo games didn't used to work with icetea. Maybe we should tell our users? gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse - Free software, lib issues* libavcodec-extra-53 - Free software, lib issues and packaging issues. ttf-mscorefonts-installer - Hack script to install the Microsoft fonts, unlikely we'll ever get a distribution agreement for this non-free content. unrar - Actually fixed by the FSF, there is no need for unrar-nonfree any more and unrar could probably go into the distro/main/multiverse (and probably is) so this should be removed. * Library issues are mainly due to patent issues which we have no data, we do know that certain libraries have a high probability of stepping on known aggressive patent pools but without data we end up sticking all media support together in a just in case package. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
