Bug#232658: marked as done (ITP: xvidcore -- MPEG-4 encoding/decoding library)
Your message dated Tue, 08 May 2007 11:59:55 -0600
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and subject line WNPP bug closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : xvidcore
Version : 0.9.2
* URL : http://www.xvid.org/
* License : GPL with non-free addendum (see below)
Description : MPEG-4 encoding/decoding library
MPEG-4 encoding/decoding library. Drip (the DVD-to-Divx backup program) needs
this in order to produce Xvid .avi files.
Before packaging this we need to sort out the license problem:
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XviD is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL + Link over controlled
interface + location restrictions.
[...]
Under section 8 of the GNU General Public License, the copyright
holders of XVID explicitly forbid distribution in the following
countries:
- Japan
- United States of America
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Note: the "Link over controlled nterface" part is an extra permission, not
a restriction, hence isn't a problem for us.
Whoever wants to package this, should first contact upstream and ask them
to drop the export restriction.
It's worth noting that most of the free software they're using to develop
Xvid actualy comes from the USA. I'd recommend this as an argument to show
upstream.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1
Locale: LANG=ca_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES@euro
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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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Hello,
This is an automatic mail sent to close the ITP you have reported or
are involved with.
Your ITP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.
As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the ITP is still of your interest, or there has been
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).
To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:
reopen 232658
stop
Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
232658@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.
A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.
Thanks for your cooperation,
-- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.
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