Hi Bálint, On 06.06.2015 21:00, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2015-06-06 20:10 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >> 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 pretty sure it does not. > I can create a Live DVD which links some existing GPLv3 packages with > incompatible packages and this is nat a fault of package maintainters. > If you believe your interpretation is correct you can ask for > confirmation on debian-legal.
Maybe, but I don't really look forward to more legal discussions. (One reason to avoid the libavcodec-extra flavor.) Would you be willing to ask debian-legal for clarification? >>> 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. > I'm OK with doubled build-time, but I hoped we would need only doubled > link-time. I think the implementation in the current libav package doubles the build-time, though technically that should not be necessary. On 06.06.2015 21:14, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2015-06-06 21:05 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >> Not having the libavcodec-extra flavor is not only a regression >> (having no AMR encoder), but also an improvement (simpler debian/rules, >> no license incompatibility to worry about, faster build, ...). >> I happen to think the improvement factor is bigger than the regression >> factor, but others may disagree. > IMO there is a big problem in this reasoning. Our primary focus should > be our users' needs and non of them would perceive any of the > advantages directly, only the missing encoder. :-( If there is actually a legal problem with the libavcodec-extra flavor and GPLv2-only programs, our users would benefit from the reduced legal risk. But if we would get confirmation from debian-legal that the libavcodec-extra package as currently implemented in src:libav is not a problem I'd be much less opposed to having the extra flavor. Maybe we could even find a reasonable way to implement this in a dh7-style debian/rules file without doubling the build-time. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
