Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar wrote:
Quoting Tomá? Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.cz>:
I have created proof of concept libav library with disabled patented codecs in my home project [1]. This means that this library si up par with what we have in chromium and it should be legal to distribute.
Apart from the library the repo contains vlc chromium and xbmc (built localy fails on obs, meh) which seems to run fine, just not to play almost anything ^_^.
Frankly, I'm not in favor of this approach at all, mainly as it means that not only ADDING a package is sufficient, but you need to REPLACE a package.
For VLC for example we have this solved in a way that the 'openSUSE provided' package is sufficient and does not have to be replaced, but an additional package 'vlc-codecs' can be installed to 'make it play more' (same as with GStreamer, where all free stuff is delivered by the dist.. other stuff comes from ADITIONAL packages).
If you can rework it so that it becomes only 'additional files' from an addon package, then I like the idea :)
I agree that the "make it play more" approach would be the preferred one. In some cases it's next to impossible or at least quite some non-trivial effort though. So IMO it's better to start with the simple approach and have the packages in Factory now rather than waiting forever for a perfect solution. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org