Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > David Hashe <david.ha...@dhashe.com> writes: > >> Thanks for clarifying. Besides patents, my other concern was >> licensing. Specifically, the page I linked about gst-plugins-ugly >> includes the following: >> >> The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might >> not be how we'd like. > > Yes, we'll need to investigate this. > >> Rather vague, but a bit worrying. However, you're right that Debian >> includes it, as do Trisquel and Parabola (both free distributions), so >> I agree that this is probably something we can include. > > I looked in Parabola's blacklist > <https://projects.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/tree/> and didn't find > issues listed with gst-plugins-ugly, so I guess that's a good sign. > > I've attached a preliminary 'gst-plugins-ugly' package for Guix. Note > that this depends on commit 23da88f61e82e2b32d6dedb3af467f665cd03bf5 > "gnu: liba52: Build shared library", which I pushed to master just a few > minutes ago.
I've since added libmpeg2 (commit e088410984) and noticed that we already have libdvdread and libdvdnav (which I just updated). Here's an updated version of my preliminary 'gst-plugins-ugly' patch. Mark
>From 60e3d1398cf058b10947727dcb8c97b11332c8e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 02:36:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add gst-plugins-ugly. * gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm (gst-plugins-ugly): New variable. --- gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm b/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm index 0f3a0fb..7ab96d2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm @@ -243,6 +243,46 @@ GStreamer multimedia library. This set contains those plug-ins which the developers consider to have good quality code and correct functionality.") (license lgpl2.0+))) +(define-public gst-plugins-ugly + (package + (name "gst-plugins-ugly") + (version "1.4.5") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/" + name "/" name "-" version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0rwhljn3f8mp2pfchzfcx4pvps1546dndw9mr56lz50qyqffimaw")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (inputs + `(("gst-plugins-base" ,gst-plugins-base) + ("liba52" ,liba52) + ("libmad" ,libmad) + ("lame" ,lame) + ("libcdio" ,libcdio) + ("twolame" ,twolame) + ("libmpeg2" ,libmpeg2) + ("libdvdread" ,libdvdread) + ;; TODO: + ;; * opencore-amr (for the AMR-NB decoder and encoder and the + ;; AMR-WB decoder) <http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/> + ;; * x264 (for the x264enc H.264 encoder) + ;; <http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html> + ("orc" ,orc))) + (native-inputs + `(("glib:bin" ,glib "bin") + ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + ("python-wrapper" ,python-wrapper))) + (home-page "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/") + (synopsis + "GStreamer plugins from the \"ugly\" set.") + (description "GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins. This set contains those plug-ins +which the developers consider to have good quality code but that might pose +distribution problems in some jurisdictions, e.g. due to patent threats.") + (license lgpl2.0+))) + (define-public gst-libav (package (name "gst-libav") -- 2.4.3