Are libav and x264 DFSG-free now?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Eugen and multimedia team list subscribers,

[other non-list recipients dropped]

On 11-08-07 at 11:25pm, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> I am maintainer of ptlib/opal/ekiga packages and I have noticed that 
> since recently some in-the-past non-free codecs (H264 for example) are 
> now working since they are in debian main.
> 
> I would like to know why libav (ffmpeg) and x264 are now found in main 
> while before they were not.  Why before they were considered DFSG 
> non-free, and now they are considered DFSG-free?  Has DSFG-freeness 
> changed?  Have ftp-master changed their mind?  To resume: what has 
> changed between a few years ago when they were NOT in main and now 
> when they ARE in main?
> 
> (I have looked on Internet without finding the answer.)

Please see 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-August/020885.html

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Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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