2009/4/9 Luciano Resende <[email protected]> > 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. > i guess there is difference. Bluesky code include the head files of FFmpeg, so i don't think this problem could be solved just by installing FFmpeg on user's machine....
> > > -- > Luciano Resende > Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk > http://people.apache.org/~lresende <http://people.apache.org/%7Elresende> > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samul Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
