Are libav and x264 DFSG-free now?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sa, Aug 06, 2011 at 20:34:59 (CEST), Eugen Dedu wrote:

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>> I can reaffirm that Debian distributes both libav as well as x264 under
>> the GPLv2, which is perfectly compliant with the DFSG. As for your
>> question regarding patents, please a look at the Debian Patent FAQ:
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq
>>
>> There may or may not be soon a libav-extra package in debian that is
>> distributed under GPLv3, but that's probably unrelated to your question.
>
> I still do not understand.  You say that now they are compliant with
> DFSG.  But my main question is: what has changed between a few years ago
> when those codecs were NOT in main, and now when they ARE in main?
> Shouldn't they have been in main since the beginning then?

I think so, yes. For details, you'd need to ask ftp-master that. In
terms of communication between ftp-master and pkg-multimedia, the
situation is as ever: there is none on this matter.

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