On 10/14/2010 03:30 PM, Stefan Parviainen wrote: > On Thursday, October 14, 2010 05:49:53 pm Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> I cannot provide you a list of formats that are problematic. >> >> The problem with mplayer is that it is structured in such a way that is >> not modular, at least not in a way that we could in Fedora package >> support for known safe formats, such as Ogg Vorbis/Theora, without >> conflicting with an rpmfusion package that contains potentially >> problematic formats. > > Why exactly would it be a problem to conflict with the rpmfusion package > (honest question)? Also, could the rpmfusion people not simply give their > package a higher priority than the one in the Fedora repos? IIRC this is how > Debian does it. Conflicts cause unnecessary confusion for end-users, and it is a rule established by rpmfusion. Playing games with package priority simply leads to confusion as versions change and causes end user expectations to not be met. > I'm interested in packaging a stripped version of mplayer, but I feel it would > be a waste of time if any package is refused due to legal reasons anyway. I > would, therefore, feel more comfortable if any legal issues could be resolved > before I start work on packaging. If a list of "bad" formats can not be given, > how about a list of "known good" ones? At least the ones currently included in > GStreamer should be OK, right? Given that mplayer is already available in rpmfusion, I do not think there is any merit in packaging a stripped version in Fedora, as it would cause a conflict with rpmfusion. I would argue that your energy might be better spent on properly modularizing the codec support in mplayer, but having dealt with that upstream in the past, I suspect your energy might be better spent not working on mplayer at all. ~spot _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
