[Mageia-dev] cinelerra (war Re: rehashing the faac issue)

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> Le 31/10/2012 12:57, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> 
>>> Le 31/10/2012 10:23, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
>>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Given the importance of this package for several multimedia-related
>>>>> software (it is a mandatory dependency for cinerella, for instance), I
>>>>> think it's time
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have a cinelerra source rpm that builds against cauldron ffmpeg?
>>>> And we can build it without AAC encoding support I think.
>>> No. Otherwise, I wouldn't have opened this painful discussion again.
>> 
>> Isn't cinelerra licensed under the GPLv2+, which means we are not
>> allowed to distribute binaries linked against a non-free library? It
>> looks like the faac discussion is not painful but completely useless.
> I wasn't aware of such kind of restriction, but it reminds me of similar 
> cases in the past. Anyway, faac isn't only used for cinelerra, and even if we 
> can't distribute it, having one less ancestor to rebuild manually is still a 
> gain.

We are not going to carry faac just for convenience to build applications 
locally. Handbrake, another application that supposedly needs faac, is 
also GPL licensed so cannot be distributed linked against faac. Arista in 
mageia supports encoding AAC without faac. Audiokonverter appears to use 
mplayer for encoding so it should be able to use ffmpeg for AAC. Anything 
else?


     Christiaan