[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

[Anssi Hannula]

On 20.09.2011 13:13, Oliver Burger wrote:
> 2011/9/20 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
>> Le mardi 20 septembre 2011 06:32:47, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
>>> Hi !
>>> Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for
>>> mageia1 and cauldron.... after some controversy
>> [..]
>>> What do you think ?
>>>
>>> Philippe
>> Well i even initially imported faac & soon after we removed it initially
>> because of the  patents/license issue.
>> So if it's now ok to import it there's no reason to not build packages against
>> it since we do think it's « safe » enough to have it in our repository.
>>
> I don't know, what changed our mind...
> The patent-/license-situation has not changed as far as I'm informed.
> Actually we would need a repo of its own for faac. Since it can't be
> in nonfree for patent issues and it can't be in tainted because we
> don't have full sources for it.
> 
> I know, we already had long discussions about it, I just don't recall
> having found a decision.
> If we have, please excuse me, if we have not, we should do soonest.

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Anssi Hannula