Hi Bálint, On 06.06.2015 19:51, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2015-06-06 19:15 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >> On 06.06.2015 02:01, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> The problem is that Debian users must be allowed to redistribute it, >> but as far as I understand it, it is not allowed to distribute e.g. >> a live DVD with hedgewars and libavcodec-extra installed. >> I also pointed this out in the previous discussion [1]. > I'm not absolutely sure, but IMO yes, such Live DVD-s would not be > allowed, but it is a problem of live DVD makers to care about. Package > maintainers can't and should not prevent this usage.
That's not how I interpret DFSG §1 [1]: "1. Free Redistribution The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources." I think this applies to Debian Live DVDs. > I'm OK with disabling AMR encoder in ffmpeg and stay GPLv2 compatible > with the packages since I have no packages requiring it nor use-cases > as a user requiring it, but I prefer the choice provided by by current > libav packaging. > > Would it be hard to patch the build system? It'd probably be doable, but there are also other downsides like e.g. a doubled build-time. Best regards, Andreas 1: https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers