faac is nonfree according to ffmpeg - What to do ?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:

> Hello !
>
> Some may know that the faac FOSS status if unsafe.
>
> Some projects have it disabled from their official build.
> The ffmpeg build that I'm preparing will have it disabled.
> the VideoLAN folk have removed it from their contribs.
> same for mythtv according to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780
>
> Do we agree to move it to the nonfree repository ?

Yeah, probably should. I can just disable it in the mythtv build, I  
think it only really impacts mythtv's music player plugin. (Its  
already disabled in the version of the mythtv spec file that gets  
stored in mythtv's svn for this very reason).

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Jarod Wilson
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