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Well that's too bad the licensing restrictions the way they are with
faac and mp4v2.<br>
<br>
One can only assume Debian wants to shield itself against possible
patent infringement.<br>
<br>
Either way, it's too bad as I personally prefer Debian proper and
seeing as some of my favorite projects, LLVM/Clang and even FreeBSD
it is a shame mp4v2 and faac aren't as flexible. Oh well.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the response and tolerance to my personal frustrations.<br>
<br>
Still the best Linux distro on the planet.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Marc<br>
<br>
On 10/04/2012 12:15 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:506D3784.70604@greffrath.com" type="cite">Am
04.10.2012 06:32, schrieb Marc J. Driftmeyer:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Deb
Multimedia as I personally
<br>
could give a rat's behind about mkv and with aac/mpeg4 they work
out
<br>
just fine for my Mac world. Any chance you could provide a
non-free
<br>
version? If not, then I only have one request:
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
No, it's currently impossible. The mp4v2 library currently used
for MP4 demuxing is licensed under the MPL. Having it linked
against GPL'ed code will make the resulting binary
unredistributable.
<br>
<br>
The faac library currently used for AAC encoding is too non-free
even for Debian's non-free. We already tried to get it into the
archive.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Please don't screw with the packaging
priority so I have to reinstall
<br>
Deb Multimedia by hand each time, instead of a simple apt-get
upgrade.
<br>
It's never wise to pee on your user base.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
We don't screw with anything. It is just not of our priority to
remain compatible with an external repository whose maintainer
gives a fsck about remaining compatible with Debian in return.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I imagine you will ignore this request and
I'll have to just keep
<br>
reinstalling it or I'll bug Christian Marillat to make sure
there is a
<br>
workaround.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Thanks for peeing on us in advance instead.
<br>
<br>
- Fabian
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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