faac is nonfree according to ffmpeg - What to do ?

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 11:03:14 CEST 2009


2009/10/8 Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>:
> 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).

Ok so at this time, there is a 100% agreement that faac need to be
moved to nonfree.
That's for F-12 only (despite every branches are concerned)... So I
expect faac to be moved to nonfree by now:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780#c2

Here is the report of a repoquery --whatrequires "libfaac.so.0()(64bit)":
avidemux-plugins-0:2.5.0-9.20090814svn.fc11.x86_64
faac-devel-0:1.28-1.fc11.1.x86_64
libquicktime-0:1.1.1-2.fc11.x86_64
avidemux-cli-0:2.4.4-6.fc11.x86_64
avidemux-gtk-0:2.4.4-6.fc11.x86_64
wis-streamer-0:0.9.8-1.fc11.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0:0.10.13-6.fc11.x86_64
avidemux-qt-0:2.4.4-6.fc11.x86_64
mencoder-0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0:0.10.13-7.fc11.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0:0.10.11-4.fc11.x86_64
ffmpeg-libs-0:0.5-2.fc11.x86_64
faac-0:1.28-1.fc11.1.x86_64

Nicolas (kwizart)


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