[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Comments regarding gtkpod_2.1.1-1_amd64.changes

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Hi!

On 22/01/2012 19:24, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a reason why the mp4/m4a plugin has a separate package and is not
> shipped within the main package as the plugins for other file formats?

When I managed to start packaging mp4v2 to have mp4/m4a support in 
gtkpod, I contacted the former packager (Fabian Greffrath) who replied 
to my initial private mail[1] making me facing the fact that there were 
license issues about the library (under MIT license), as he already 
faced in the past[2]. An easy solution to the situation was shipping the 
library support in a separate plugin, using a dlopen function call to 
provide what needed.

Anyway, if this is not a problem anymore, feel free to reject the 
package in NEW queue to give me the chance to ship it together with all 
the other plugins.

 > Regards,
 > Ansgar

Cheers,
Matteo


[1] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-August/020991.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2009/10/msg00958.html

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