[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1021370: pipewire: build with bluez5-codec-aac=enabled

[Max Nikulin]

On 13/01/2024 02:17, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:12 AM Max Nikulin <manikulin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> An alternative may be building a separate package for the contrib
>> repository section that contains just the aac codec plugin.
> 
> I would prefer getting fdk-aac-free into Debian main. It has been in
> the NEW queue for roughly 2 years.

I suggested a separate contrib package because after reading #981285 I 
decided that there is a little chance that package can be moved to main.

"Changes" in
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fdk-aac-free_2.0.2-3.html
(I hope NEWS file advertises it as well) contains a better description 
of intentions in comparison to the request to ftpmasters in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981285#64

I was confused by
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FDK-AAC
> [UPDATE: As of some date in August 2022, the FDK-AAC license is expected
> to be reclassified as not-allowed (essentially, non-free) because of its
> "no patent licenses" feature. This is not expected to have an impact on
> the continued packaging of fdk-aac-free in Fedora.]
Maybe another message to ftpmasters could help. One that clearly states 
the steps taking to resolve licensing issues.

It may be offered to add new set of binary packages, e.g. 
libfdk-aac2-free having Provides: libfdk-aac2 and Conflicts: 
libfdk-aac2. However duplication increases maintenance burden in the 
case of security bugs.

So it is necessary to identify friction points related to fdk-aac-free.