Maia Kozheva <si...@ubuntu.com> writes: > faad2 is actually in main, it's faac that's in multiverse.
sidenote: it has turned out that faac claims to be LGPL, but in fact is not. Keeping it in multiverse until someone investigates the issue further seems a good idea. filed as #374900. takers welcome. > libmp4v2 is part of the mpeg4ip source package, which has two > multiverse build-dependencies: libmp3lame-dev (from lame) and > libxvidcore4 (from xvidcore). > If x264 was moved to universe, I see no evident reason for these two > to remain in multiverse just because of patent issues, but IANAL. there is much more evidence about enforcment on mp3 patents so that I would suggest additional care here. xvid is AFAIUI clearly non-free material. :-( > I have another doubt against a gtkpod-aac transitional package: it would be a > divergence from Debian that we would have to carry until it can be dropped (in > karmic+1? What's the policy on transitional packages?), since Debian has no > reason to add it. Yes, we (would) have to keep that divergence until the next LTS release. This is however not very challanging to manage IME. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
