[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Rémi Verschelde]

2012/10/29 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>:
>
> 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

Looking at the history if the discussion (and especially this thread),
it seems that a third option was clearly stated and approved by a few
contributors:

C. Change the definition of the Tainted repository to open it to
non-free software.

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

Regards,
Rémi