2011/9/21 Florian Hubold <[email protected]>: > Am 21.09.2011 02:14, schrieb Philippe DIDIER: >> >> Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ : >> >Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered >> >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution. >> >> The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference code >> which >> it is based on... to comply with this international standard (nothing >> strange in that) >> everything else is LGPL . >> An international standard may not be modified, for sure, and is surely >> not GPL ! >> And for this reason we may consider FAAC as non-free... >> >> Faac i's the only way to create *.aac or *.m4a files without using a >> proprietary encoder >> (like NERO aac encoder that can't be distribuable... and is surely not GPL >> !) > > This is simply not true, there is vo-aacenc and there is also ffaac, both > from ffmpeg.
If there are alternatives to faac I strongly suggest, not adding faac to any of our repos, after all, we are using and providing OpenSource-Software and should follow its philosophy. If others don't care about it, we still should. Oliver
