Re: a52dec - shared version
[I'm cc:ing -legal as some advice re dolby reactions from
law-enlightened people would be nice. Please cc me, I'm not on
-legal.]
Zdenek Kabelac writes:
> > > package the current version as shared version -
> >
> > It's more that I don't want to do it as long as upstream says "it's
> > not ready for that" (see my last message to bug 125951)
>
> Well you should rather try to fulfill Debians users/developers needs :)
Just don't want to buy me a lot of extra trouble with little gain.
But hang on, I might be close to convinced. Not much use to put it in
woody though. And no time.
> > > it might be consider as a 'law' problem (I'm even surpriced that
> > > a52 library is 'officialy' in the Debian as AC3 decoding library)
> >
> > Hm, this law thing might be a good enough reason. Could you explain
> > further? Or give some pointer? Might be good to cc debian-legal for
> > this.
>
> Sure just check avifile's doc
>
> enjoy as much as me :) :
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/Letters/20010803-dolby.html
Sounds nasty. Do you know what has happened? I see ac3 is still in
the ports system, along with liba52
/Micce
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