2011/9/20 Balcaen John <[email protected]>: > Le mardi 20 septembre 2011 06:32:47, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> Hi ! >> Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for >> mageia1 and cauldron.... after some controversy > [..] >> What do you think ? >> >> Philippe > Well i even initially imported faac & soon after we removed it initially > because of the patents/license issue. > So if it's now ok to import it there's no reason to not build packages against > it since we do think it's « safe » enough to have it in our repository. > I don't know, what changed our mind... The patent-/license-situation has not changed as far as I'm informed. Actually we would need a repo of its own for faac. Since it can't be in nonfree for patent issues and it can't be in tainted because we don't have full sources for it.
I know, we already had long discussions about it, I just don't recall having found a decision. If we have, please excuse me, if we have not, we should do soonest. Oliver
