On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@ubuntu.com>wrote:

>
> Hey folks,  I fear I have sad news for the faac package. Besides
> that the debian/copyright file is wrong anyways (it claims GPL
> license, which is wrong), it came to my attention that the package
> itself is probably non redistributible. Please see
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/374900 for the
> sad details.
>
(...)

> According to ffmpeg upstream (and I tend to share this opinion),
> this
> makes it impossible to redistribute it in a package that does not
> claim
> to be MPEG-2/MPEG-4 conformant, which in the end is against the
> spirit
> and letter of the (L)GPL.
>
> At this point, I fear we'll have to pull out this package. :-(
>

I've looked around at hydrogenaudio.org, but I can't find a thread where
this topic is discussed. Did you get in touch by email with Faac's
developper (me...@audiocoding.com - according to the latest upstream
tarball), or by any other mean, so they can also address this issue?

Loïc
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