gpac_0.4.5+svn3450~dfsg1-1_amd64.changes is NEW

[Alessio Treglia]

Hi Andres,

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not going to be accepted. Look at copyright and grep
> 'SmartMovie'. That license is certainly non-free.

fixed, we no longer distribute the code covered by other-2 with our tarball.

> Also, the license
> other-1 is non-free to me. Software has to conform to MPEG-U Widgets
> (ISO/IEC 23007-1) standard.

I have removed the module "widgetman", I'm curious to see what
upstream intends to do with it.
BTW, have you ever got in touch with upstream and informed him about
these issues?

> The "other-3" license is vague and needs
> clarification, or the file should be removed.

 *   Permission for free direct or derivative use is granted subject
 *   to compliance with any conditions that the originators of the
 *   algorithm place on its exploitation.

Rijndael [1] (a.k.a. AES) is a public specification and unencumbered by patents.
I don't know what the original coder was referring to.

> This was the main hold up for me continuing work on packaging gpac. I
> also wanted to replace gpac's use of openssl with nettle.

Great idea!


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijndael

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