Hi, (CC-ing ubuntu-devel for clarification)
Am Samstag 31 Mai 2008 23:03:32 schrieb Michael Bienia: > > As mplayer and mencoder are build from the same source package, it's not > really easy to put them into different components (universe/multiverse). > > I'm not sure if it's allow that a source package from multiverse can > built a package for universe, but my guess would be that it's not > allowed. actually, this seems to be possible, at least based on comments from Colin on irc (see [1], somewhere after 19:18). > > Moving the source package to universe and put mencoder into multiverse > isn't probably possible either: I didn't check if mplayer has some > build-depends from multiverse (which would prevent putting mplayer > source into universe) or if it's possible to put the source into > universe at all (due to the patents as afaik that's a reason why it's in > multiverse). hm... if only patent issues are a problem, I'd like to know what patents can actually cover. If patents only limit usage, but not distribution, I see no problems with putting mplayer sources in universe, and building binary mencoder packages in multiverse. Can someone clarify this? Cheers, Stefan. -- [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2007/10/23/%23ubuntu-devel.html
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