On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Adam Jackson<ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:39 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:10:59 -0400, you wrote: >> >> >238 Can libvdpau go in Fedora? >> >> As far I understand this package itself is open source but has a >> dependency to the properitary nVidia video driver which is >> provides by rpmfusion.org. >> >> For this reason I vote agains the inclusion of this package into >> Fedora because I introduce a requirement reference to a >> third-party repository. > > I think there's precedents for accepting it for Fedora: > > - libXNVCtrl, another X extension library that happens to only do > anything when the user is running the nvidia binary driver, but which is > itself MIT-licensed. > > - gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux, which allows you to separate the audio > and video streams from MPEG files, even though the decoding itself is > off-limits for Fedora > > It happens that only nvidia implements VDPAU at the moment, but so what? > Any other vendor could too. Well S3 does, but there driver isn't open either. But it proves that non nvidia implementations are possible. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
