[Bug 888224] Review Request: libshairport - emulates an airport express

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888224

Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
David Hammerton's ALAC decoder is not okay for Fedora, because of legal
concerns.

The code at http://alac.macosforge.org is however under a Patent grant from
Apple via the Apache License, so it would be acceptable. (That grant does not
apply to the Hammerton implementation.)

The Apple ALAC code compiles into a static library with their Makefile, but it
is almost certainly possible to make it into a shared library with a few minor
Makefile changes. Then, libshairport could be patched to use it.

Alternately, you could delete the ALAC code from libshairport, though I'm not
sure if that will render it useless or not.

Sorry to be a buzzkill. Leaving this FE-Legal blocked for now.

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