On 20.09.2011 13:02, Balcaen John wrote: > Le mardi 20 septembre 2011 06:32:47, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> Hi ! >> Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for >> mageia1 and cauldron.... after some controversy > [..] >> What do you think ? >> >> Philippe > Well i even initially imported faac & soon after we removed it initially > because of the patents/license issue. > So if it's now ok to import it there's no reason to not build packages > against > it since we do think it's « safe » enough to have it in our repository.
Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution. However, the license of software 'x' may forbid (like GPL does) distributing a binary of 'x' which is linked against non-free code (which faac has), hence it may not be ok to build 'x' with faac support. -- Anssi Hannula
