On 20.09.2011 13:13, Oliver Burger wrote: > 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.
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html -- Anssi Hannula
