Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:18:38PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Michael Hanke wrote: <snip> > >Anyway, we packaged volpack: > > > >http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exppsy/volpack/?rev=0&sc=0 > > So would this been ready for sponsoring? If yes, I could have a > look and move it to the Debian mirror. It should be in a reasonably good shape. However, I haven't had a look at it for quite a while. I'd be glad if someone could adopt the package as I do not have the capabilities to maintain another package ATM. I'd be willing to co-maintain it, if necessary. > >But unfortunately discovered that libfame is non-free. > >As none of us wanted to maintain another non-free package the whole > >process stopped at that point. > > Hmmm, non-free is not the right word. What I found on debian-multimedia > is rather GPLed, but I think there are some patent issues with MPEG stuff. > I just wrote an e-mail to Christian Marillat to enlighten me about the > chances of an official inclusion of the library. Perhaps it is just about > stripping some code from the codebase (like in the mplayer case) and > leave those parts that provided the needed functionality for amide. It > might also be possible that only a certain functionality of amide is > not available and we just could document this in README.Debian. Any > comments > about this would be welcome. We asked Christian as well and he mentioned a dependency to some OpenDivx stuff (which is non-free) -- IIRC. Cheers, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050
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