Hi, It has been suggested to me that I should contact you and ask for clarification for the license of faac. Allow me to introduce myself, I'm both and Debian and Ubuntu Developer and maintain several multimedia related packages in the Debian pkg-multimedia team.
It has come to my attention that ffmpeg and x264 developers claim that faac cannot be redistributed under the LGPL. According to my investigations, this claim arises from using the following files: - libfaac/bitstream.c - libfaac/tns.c - libfaac/tns.h All contain the following copyright notice: This software module was originally developed by and edited by Texas Instruments in the course of development of the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standard ISO/IEC 13818-7, 14496-1,2 and 3. This software module is an implementation of a part of one or more MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio tools as specified by the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standard. ISO/IEC gives users of the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standards free license to this software module or modifications thereof for use in hardware or software products claiming conformance to the MPEG-2 NBC/ MPEG-4 Audio standards. Those intending to use this software module in hardware or software products are advised that this use may infringe existing patents. The original developer of this software module and his/her company, the subsequent editors and their companies, and ISO/IEC have no liability for use of this software module or modifications thereof in an implementation. Copyright is not released for non MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. The original developer retains full right to use the code for his/her own purpose, assign or donate the code to a third party and to inhibit third party from using the code for non MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. This copyright notice must be included in all copies or derivative works. Copyright (c) 1997. This issue is tracked publicly in the ubuntu bug tracking system at https://launchpad.net/bugs/374900 I strongly suspect that this is not intended and there might either be a misunderstanding or can be fixed otherwise easily. Could you please state us you your opinion on the matter and advice us how to proceed with the ubuntu package in ubuntu? If you don't mind, I'd like to copy your answer to the bug referenced above. Thanks for releasing faac under LGPL and thanks in advance for considering this issue! -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Libfaac not LGPL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
