On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 03:47 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > - gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 - Non-free, not sure why we're using this > instead of libmad which is free software.
We aren't "using" any of them, actually. We are packaging several, which are not installed by default, within an appropriate place due to their licensing and legal concerns. The 'mad' MP3 decoder for gstreamer is in the -ugly package because libmad is a GPL library instead of LGPL. Even if it was LGPL, and included in the gstreamer -base plug-ins package, Debian would determine it belongs in nonfree due to the patent and licensing issues of the codec itself, and so we would still be placing that binary in restricted. The Fluendo plug-in is the only fully legal MP3 codec implementation there is to use.
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