[PD-dev] debian-multimedia.org for Debian packages?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Apr 8 05:36:12 CEST 2007


On Apr 6, 2007, at 7:50 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:

>
> On 6 Apr 2007, at 12:34, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Anyone know anything about http://www.debian-multimedia.org for apt-
>>> get sources?  It has all of the non-Debian sources that Pd-extended
>>> needs, so it sounds like a good thing to use.  I am wondering if the
>>> packages are stable and whether the repository will be around a
>>> while.
>>
>
>> however, there are license issues (most of the software in
>> debian-multimedia did not made it into debian because of license)
>
> Do you know what the licensing issues are? Is there a GPL/BSD
> conflict? Or is it worse?
>
> It looks like a good source, from where I sit.

Usually it's patent issues more than licensing issues, AFAIK.  And  
most of those patent issues are null in most of the world, or even  
all of the world except the U.S.  Somehow Fraunhofer managed to get a  
patent in Europe on MP3, so that would still be not allowed in Europe.

But the GPL/BSD/etc code that is not in Debian only because it's  
patented in the U.S. would be totally legit in Europe.

.hc

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