[Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Wed Jun 20 14:24:40 CEST 2012


On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Oliver Burger wrote:

> Am 20.06.2012 13:45, schrieb Simple w:
>> Appears to be different from faac case, because this one doesnt have a
>> GPL license, so it could be in non-free repository.
> The issue with faac is not, that it's partly GPL, the problem is, it's 
> partly nonfree.
> Packages that are _pure_ OpenSource and patented are going into tainted.
> Packages that are non-free and not patented are going into nonfree.
> But this is nonfree and patented, unless someeone can prove me and 
> wikipedia wrong.
> So it's a no-go.

Actually we are not allowed to distribute this program without signing
an agreement with them :
http://www.voiceage.com/openinit_amrwb_eula.php

So the only suitable repository would be the "copyright-violations"
repository.



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