I've also posted a bug for vlc; Checking mad and ffmpeg now too. Matthew W. S. Bell
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 21:09 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > Am Samstag, den 29.04.2006, 19:10 +0100 schrieb Matthew William Solloway > Bell: > > Package: libxine1 > > Version: 1.1.1-1.1 > > Severity: Serious > > Justification: Policy 2.3 - Copyright considerations > > > > This package includes libfaad* and libx264* which implement the MPEG-4 > > Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding. Unfortunately, these > > are patent encumbered in at least the USA, and many other countries. To > > distribute code implementing any of these patents, a license is > > required[1]. This license requires signing an agreement and the payment > > of royalties, which hasn't been done AFAIK, and is contrary to policy. > > FYI the same is also true for mad, most parts of ffmpeg, vlc and > probably 1000 of other (multimedia related or not) packages... > > And vlc even contains exactly the same code you mention above. > > (I don't want to propose a solution for this problem and I also think > that something has to be decided. I just wanted to clarify that a > decision here would also affect many other packages) >
