[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[David Walser]

AL13N wrote:
> 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.

(D) Already stated to be not an option.  Then some mirrors couldn't (or at least shouldn't) mirror nonfree, which would be a big 
inconvenience to its users.  Not having tainted, or faac, is not as big of a deal.