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Re: Bug#981285: Please move fdk-aac to main



On 2022-01-26 10:51:34 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> The 28 Jan 2021, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Currently the fdk-aac[0] package is in non-free.
> > 
> > That package would be needed by both pulseaudio (via gstreamer) and
> > pipewire to provide AAC support for bluetooth headsets and speakers.
> > 
> > After some discussion with people on #debian-gnome, it looks like that
> > the licence of the package might actually be free after all.
> > 
> > Both the GNU project[1] and Fedora[2] are considering it Free.
> > 
> > Could you please have a look at this an maybe move the package to main?
> 
> Could anybody of the multimedia team have a look at this?
> 
> I would be really interested to see AAC support in pulseaudio/pipewire for
> bluetooth devices

While I've done some of the last uploads, I haven't checked the details
of the license. If you have time to work on this, please just go ahead.

Cheers

> 
> 
> > 
> > Note that this would remove the need of src:gst-plugins-bad1.0-contrib
> > that is currently waiting in the NEW queue.
> > 
> > Kind Regards,
> > 
> > Laurent Bigonville
> > 
> > [0]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdk-aac
> > [1]https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#fdk
> > [2]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FDK-AAC

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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