El dc 30 de 12 de 2009 a les 07:51 -0500, en/na Daniel Clark va escriure: > [email protected] wrote: > > For some reason, there is no VLC player in the packages. Can anyone tell > > me why? What non-free components does the VLC player feature to have > > been excluded? > > FYI vlc 1.0.x from the PPA would install except that libx264-65 is > removed from Trisquel Dwyn; anyone happen to remember the reason for > that package being removed? > > What I can find looking quickly is that there are likely patent problems > with libx264 in some jurisdictions including the US, but not software > freedom (binary blob) problems. > > Brett - would a GNU/Linux distribution including libx264 cause issues > for people wanting to host a mirror of the distribution in the US? > > BTW according to http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00314 vlc and libx264 > will be in gNewSense 3 (which is Debian GNU/Linux based). > So then, VLC should be available from the Trisquel repos, maybe on the next release :P
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