Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - made easy
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]> writes:
> Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> You all know about the unsatisfying situation of some codec libraries
>> that are commonly called 'risky' or 'patented'; namely lame, xvid and
>> friends. While being perfectly free software on the one hand, licensed
>> under the GPL or LGPL, they are surrounded by a cloud of patent FUD or
>> even actual threat, which makes them unsuitable for Debian's main
>> section [0]. [...]
>
> We should just create a separate archive like non-us, e.g. non-pat,
> which's primary host would reside somewhere where multimedia software
> patents are moot. (I suppose france would be alright, since debian-
> multimedia is hosted there). d-i should offer to add these sources.
How about just using non-free for that? In the past, patented packages
like gif encoders have been hosted there, so why can't we just use them
for mpeg encoders as well?
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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