From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] faad2 (2.8.8)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:10:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c43cebe8c2b6159e20a697979bf30910fb359fe.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <351d817f-b281-6289-b667-f3e51b2e30b1@Shaw.ca>
On Sun, 2023-02-05 at 22:04 -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-02-05 19:46, Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 19:36 +0900, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > I would like to propose a new package FAAD2 which is
> > > a decoder library for AAC audio codec. This package
> > > is needed by the new package moc I have proposed at
> > > the same time. I have already prepared the package at:
> > >
> > > https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86_64/release/faad2/
> >
> > Unfortunately, this cannot be included in the Cygwin distribution.
>
> These packages are now GPL and available from Arch, Debian main repo, *BSD
> ports, OpenSuSE, Slack, and more, so there may have been issues with
> non-relocatable non-PIC assembler code, patents now
> expired/lapsed/challenged,
> VideoLan or alternative commercial licensing, for example no commercial use
> restrictions?
> Many codecs like these can be installed on Fedora, etc. from RPMfusion,
> UnitedRPMs, or other repos.
Anything blocked from Fedora itself for legal reasons cannot be part of Cygwin
either. Its inclusion in any other distro or repo is insufficient.
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-06 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-20 10:36 Takashi Yano
2023-02-06 2:46 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2023-02-06 5:04 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-06 5:10 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2023-02-06 12:22 ` Takashi Yano
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