Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-06 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
That's actually got some promise as a license can evolve where a patent holder incapable or unwilling to license the code makes it impossible to evolve. - Marc On 10/05/2012 06:32 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Freitag, den 05.10.2012, 00:58 -0700 schrieb Marc J. Driftmeyer: Well that's too ba

Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-05 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 05.10.2012, 00:58 -0700 schrieb Marc J. Driftmeyer: > Well that's too bad the licensing restrictions the way they are with > faac and mp4v2. > > One can only assume Debian wants to shield itself against possible > patent infringement. All the issues seems to be with licensing, not

Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-05 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/10/12 15:58, Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote: Well that's too bad the licensing restrictions the way they are with faac and mp4v2. One can only assume Debian wants to shield itself against possible patent infringement. much more than shield itself ... one of the core goals behind debian is that

Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Marc, thanks for your calm reply. ;) We do not criple packages at will. We will always try the best to keep our packages as usefull as possible. But sometimes it is impossible to keep all features, because we have to obey self-imposed "restrictions". Restrictions, that maybe others like d-

Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-05 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
Well that's too bad the licensing restrictions the way they are with faac and mp4v2. One can only assume Debian wants to shield itself against possible patent infringement. Either way, it's too bad as I personally prefer Debian proper and seeing as some of my favorite projects, LLVM/Clang an

Re: Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.10.2012 06:32, schrieb Marc J. Driftmeyer: Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Deb Multimedia as I personally could give a rat's behind about mkv and with aac/mpeg4 they work out just fine for my Mac world. Any chance you could provide a non-free version? If not, then I only have one req

Handbrake repackaging

2012-10-03 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
Thanks for the effort, sort of. HandBrake is a versatile, easy-to-use tool for converting DVDs and other videos into H.264, XViD, or OGG formatted media. It's particularly useful for making videos that are compatible with portable video devices such as the Apple iPod/iPhone or Sony PSP. *Thi