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

[Fabian Greffrath]

owner 515850 pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
thanks

Am 29.11.2010 17:07, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> It is basically a buggy, orphaned and incomplete reference
> implementation, which projects like mjpegtools took as basis and
> improved them. The original authors disappeared, and from what I deduce
> from http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mpeg-pointers-and-resources/, the MSSG
> software is considered "public-domain" nowadays.
>
> I guess we can and should try to get the package into debian, with these
> pieces of information included in debian/copyright.

I hope, but honestly do not believe, that one web page that mentions 
the term "public domain" and another one that holds software that can 
somehow be connected to the code in mpjegtools is sufficient to 
convince FTP-Masters of its DFSG-freeness. Anyway, we should start 
bring the package in shape and simply try!

For those interested, we could start with my packages targeted at 
debian-unofficial.org (when etch was stable!) found here:
<http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/restricted/dists/trunk/mjpegtools/>

  - Fabian