Re: Debian and Patents
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- Subject: Re: Debian and Patents
- From: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:15:53 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:00:16 (CEST), Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:12:37 +0530, Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
>>> I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due
> to
>>> legal risk to SPI. I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the
>>> debian-multimedia
>>> repositories which, while good, are not official.
> It is. Debian Sid ships a version of FFMpeg which has disabled patented
> codecs etc.
This statement is wrong. We never disabled any decoder from ffmpeg.
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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