[Bug 1501522] Review Request: fdk-aac - Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for Android

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522



--- Comment #74 from Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) from comment #72)
> You are not changing anything to the copyright if the patent is expunged
> from the library. So, the library still has to be considered as non-floss 
> The uncertainty about the license condition would still apply.

What uncertainty?  RH Legal has already cleared the license.

> Now about RPM Fusion. We have a non-replacement policy for fedora packages
> in our default enabled repositories. So if you still decide to introduce
> this broken package (both legally and technically), then we will move our
> fdk-aac to a side repository that will need to be explicitly enabled.

No, the intended solution would be to add an ld.so.conf.d-managed
fdk-aac-freeworld similar to that of freetype-freeworld and
qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld.

> The point is. If the goal was to restore the support relying on the external
> repository policy. Why just not only to rely on it in the first step and
> drop the fedora fdk-aac package ?

The goal is to get as much as we possibly can into Fedora itself.

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