[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, PhilippeDidier wrote:

> Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>> Hello list.
>>
>> The case of faac package has been discussed several times already:
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-dev@mageia.org/msg08059.html
>>
>> https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016673.html
>>
>> So far, the conclusion was than we had no perfect solution to handle the
>> case of a software being having both licensing and patents issue,
>> whereas usually software only suffer from one of these problems only,
>> and than creating a dedicated 4th repository was unreasonable. Hence the
>> removal of the package from the mirrors (but not from our svn...).

> unfortunately ...
> three weeks after the last post on this thread
> a long silence

The problem is the following:

1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3)
2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software)
3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries)

so we only have 2 options:
A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia
    or another one that can go into tainted
B. add a special repository for faac

I prefer option A and I patched a gstreamer based video encoding app to 
use vo-aacenc instead of faac a while ago.


     Christiaan