Bug#515850: RFP: mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> One can now argue what "commercial implementation" actually means. I'm
> still waiting for ftp-master to comment on this, but AFAIUI, I don't see
> why debian wouldn't be able to ship the binaries of mjpegtools, lame and
> similar free software in non-free.
> [...]
> ftp-master, can you please comment on adding this kind software to
> non-free?

We also attempted to wait for a statement from ftp-master about the 
iclusion of the h261 encoder in the ffmpeg packages. IIRC in the end 
we simply pushed it in the NEW queue and it got accepted -- without an 
explicit statement from ftp-master. Maybe we should proceed just like 
this with mjpegtools, i.e. prepare packages and upload them. If they 
get rejected we'll know why. If not, even better... ;)


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