Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 08:43:10 schrieb Eric Bélanger:
We could. But these codecs were made by big companies with money and lawyers and they care about licensing issues much more than the creators of vim plugins, say. I'm thinking that it might be better to have something more explicit. If the consensus is that "unknown" is OK, then we could go with it.
Imho we should just remove the codecs package. These days you can play all files nicely with mplayer/ffmpeg. Afaik this pacakges includes some dlls from Windows, QuickTime, RealPlayer etc.. Its very likely that distribution is just not allowed. So in the end we have a pacakge with an unclear license and which is not really used by anything. It should be save to move it to AUR. PS: Its also available for i686 only; the x86_64 one is nearly empty. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de