On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > Am 03.02.2012 16:16, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: > >> IIRC, Andres was working on it last. The last problem I remember was >> that it contained code from the reference mpeg2 encoder, which >> required license/copyright clarification or having those parts dropped >> from the package. >> >> IIRC, A number of missing packages require gpac. > > > Damn, that stupid mpeg license text is nearly the same as in faac. There it > turned the whole library non-free and even non-distributable - whereas, > that's our interpretation, I am not sure what ftp-masters think about it > (did we ever try to upload faac yet?).
I've asked debian-legal (with zero response) and then abandoned faac. I've escalated this question to the ubuntu technical board, and they've decided faac was redistributable but non-free. So that wouldn't help us much. Maybe we can port/replace the offending parts with code from libavcodec? > > BTW, I am sorry I started this madness, but let's plase just answer to the > list again. No worries. > BTW2, there is also a nearly-ready transcode 1.1.3 package prepared in git > which "just" needs review of debian/copyright and Build-Depends. This would > also enable uploading of a lot of packages that depend on it, e.g. dvd::rip. Cool! I'll try to find time next week to have a look at it. -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers