Hello all,
I really appreciate the efforts of everyone involved in checking
possible FSDG issues in Guix ungoogled-chromium, seriuosly
anyway I find this thread is way too long to be useful in addressing
FSDG issues in that package, so they can be **tacked** and
**referenced** properly
I humbly invite anyone finding _specific_ issues to file a bug to
bug-g...@gnu.org, as I did myself here
http://issues.guix.info/issue/34605 (forwarding one behalf of Luke
report)
this will be my last message in this thread
Marius Bakke writes:
[...]
>> ;; Note: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/h264-patent-license:
>> "use_openh264=false"
>> "rtc_use_h264=false"
>
> I'm not an expert, so I'll defer judgement on this topic to someone more
> knowledgeable. My understanding is that the OpenH264 library in use is
> sufficiently free. Is that incorrect?
disclaimer: I'm not an expert and not at all knowledgeable :-)
but there's no need for an expert here: the link in the above note
substantially explains that H264 [1] is patent encumbered (thus not
patent-free), anyway GNU FSDG clearly states
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html#patents
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we don't generally ask free system distributions to exclude software
because of possible threats from patents.
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nonetheless, OpenH264 is free software, so I don't see any FSDG issue in
distributing it
all above said, I do not see FSDG issues in using H264
HTH!
Giovanni
P.S.: I'm _not_ implying that patents are not a seriuos issue, but that
discussion is OT here :-S
[1] sorry to note the onviuos: it's a video compression format, not a
software (the software is OpenH264)
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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