On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Bálint Réczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> 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.
Why would you think that distributing the packages libavcodec-extra and hedgewars on the same Live media would create a derived work that must fulfill all licenses? I fail to spot the problem here. If you want to be extra careful, just install the regular GPLv2+ libavcodec package, which according to the dependencies of the hedgewars package should work just fine. >>> Since the hassle makes more work for active ffmpeg maintainers and >>> while I sponsored a few uploads I don't consider myself one I should >>> not make the call, but it would be really nice to provide the AMR >>> encoder as well in Debian and also keeping hedgewars in the archive. >>> >>> Maybe there is a way of providing libavcodec-extra and having modern >>> packaging scripts. Maybe patching the build could help, but I have not >>> checked this idea. >> >> The AMR encoder is anyway just a wrapper around libopencore/libvo. >> Gstreamer also has similar wrappers and since they are plugins, the >> license is less of a problem. >> Thus anyone really wanting to encode AMR can use gstreamer. Except those that want or need to use the "avconv" or "ffmpeg" command-line utilities. > 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. Thanks for the support! > Would it be hard to patch the build system? To do what exactly? The current libav packaging already implements this in a way that the user can choose what packages to install. On a personal note: The libav packaging can surely be improved and simplified. But throwing away years of work just because, and knowing about the regressions for the sake of simplicity feels wrong. 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
