Re: Project Opendigitalradio (www.opendigitalradio.org)

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: Robin Alexander
> odr-audioenc_3.2.0-1_amd64.changes was REJECTED. The reason being:
> 
> "
> 
> license clause is compatible with DFSG:
> 
> You may use this FDK AAC Codec software or modifications thereto only for
> purposes that are authorized by appropriate patent licenses.
> 
> "
> 
> Actually, odr-audioenc depends on the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for
> Android which can be modified and distributed. I saw somewhere that debian
> nevertheless considers this license as being non-free. If that is the case,
> can the package still be pushed to Debian (maybe through a different
> process) or not. If it cannot, then I believe that it makes no sense to keep
> the other 3 packages in the debian project and to remove them before
> bookworm is finalized.

Hi Robin,

I haven't reviewed the license, but if the reject reason is true, the
package would have to be uploaded to non-free, and any (free) software
depending on it would have to go to contrib (or to non-free as well).

Are there any alternative libraries that could be used instead?

Christoph