On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Samul Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Now... I have a very difficult question to ask... >> Bluesky project relies heavily on video technology, most of which is not >> suitable for redistribution by the ASF (due to licensing terms and >> condition). The team has made a great effort over the past year to scrub >> the project clean of incompatibly licensed code, but is it enough? My >> concern is that the project will never be able to resolve the difficulties >> around the licensing of the video technologies... and that maybe the ASF is >> not the best home for Bluesky for this reason. > > yes, the critical part of Bluesky system is video and audio tech. Surely we > can't us FFmpeg, but at least we could try to find a suitalbe replacement > which in my opinion, there is chance that this problem could be solved. > >
With the disclaimer that I don't know much about the internals and challenges in BlueSky code, can this problem be workarounded/solved by requiring the user to download some software that is capable to do the video/audio work... and we just delegate to it when we need to play a video/audio ? Similar to what we have in some Linux distribution, where it by default does not support mp3, but if you download a given piece of software (e.g xmms) you can listen to mp3 music. -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
