[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Mon Oct 29 22:34:19 CET 2012


Op maandag 29 oktober 2012 22:19:04 schreef 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.

D. Change the definition of the Nonfree repository to open it to tainted 
software.


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