On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:46:14 +0100 Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de> wrote:
Create a libopenh264 in Debian main or non-free repositories which
downloads the binary which was build by Cisco when the package is
installed. I think Debian would then not ship the patented binary.
Create a libopenh264-dev with the matching header files.
We would do it in a similar way like this:
https://packages.debian.org/de/sid/firmware-b43-installer
This is fine. The package must not reside in main. If you plan to
release the package (the downloader) under a DFSG-compatible license,
please submit it to contrib rather than non-free.
I haven't started this, I only looked at the code and it looks like it
is possible. I would like to know if this solution would be acceptable
by Debian. My motivation is that I want to use GeForce Now and make it
easier to use Google Stadia with Chromium on Debian...
I am not a lawyer and also not a Debian developer, but I would implement
this if this proposal looks ok.
Please go ahead. I would like to have openh264 in contrib.
