On Monday April 26 2010 21:55:12 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
FWIW, this is a summary of what Debian and Ubuntu found on ffmpeg: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionFFmpeg
And they did not find MPEG-4, huh? And the Quicktime, RealNetworks stuff? (Ok, no need to list them all, but the document does not even mention that there may be others.) I side with Adrian..
If you read the page, you'll notice it talks about *enforced* patents against FLOSS. You may have patents but not enforce them. In this crazy world of patently absurd patents you need to have defensive patents. Heck, even Red Hat has a large patent portfolio.
That probably doesn't matter since Novell is a corporation which can be sued by $random_patent_troll and not some FOSS project one can't get a cent from (like Debian). Same reason openSUSEs own ffmpeg stuff is in Packman and not in the OSS repo.
There is more information about the issues (and of course MPEG-4, etc are considered) in the READMEs the above webpage mentions:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/RE ADME.Debian http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/R EADME.Source
But we are diverging from my original request: have 'universe' in OBS. It's clear Debian and Ubuntu take great care to not violate the law. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org