[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

[Oliver Burger]

2011/9/21 Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de>:
> Am 21.09.2011 02:14, schrieb Philippe DIDIER:
>>
>> Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ :
>> >Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered
>> >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution.
>>
>> The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference code
>> which
>> it is based on... to comply with this international standard (nothing
>> strange in that)
>> everything else is LGPL .
>> An international standard may not be modified,  for sure, and is surely
>> not GPL !
>> And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free...
>>
>> Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a
>> proprietary encoder
>> (like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely not GPL
>> !)
>
> This is simply not true, there is vo-aacenc and there is also ffaac, both
> from ffmpeg.

If there are alternatives to faac I strongly suggest, not adding faac
to any of our repos, after all, we are using and providing
OpenSource-Software and should follow its philosophy.
If others don't care about it, we still should.

Oliver