On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:18 PM, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org:
shall i submit a feature-request to add debian-multimedia.org to the repositories on the build-machines? even the docs for building pd-extended on debian (http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Debian) suggest using this repository, so i wonder why it is not used.
debian-multimedia.org is not an official repository, and has packages that are not legal to use without a patent license (this is not
only a problem in the US, but mostly). Using all official Debian packages means that it meets the DFSG, which is a very good thing, IMHO.which is definitely a valid argument.
nevertheless, why do the docs for building Debian then suggest to
add repositories that have packages that are not legal - therefore
talking naive users into potentially doing a crime? furthermore, the docs even explicitely tell users to install
potentially patent-encumbered packages, while i was just asking for
a totally legal package (libquicktime is in main debian anyhow;
debian-multimedia provides a backport for etch)
libquicktime can have patent issues if it is built with all of the
codecs. Feel free to change the docs, they are wikis for that
purpose. I do want I can.
finally, i should probably submit a bugreport as to remove liblame0
and liblame-dev from the debian/stable machine, as this _is_ a
potentially patent-encumbered package installed _from_ debian- multimedia.org :-)
If you want, it's been on the todo list for a while.
.hc
mfg.asr IOhannes
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