[arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

[Loui Chang]

On Sat 07 May 2011 18:32 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> >Ionut Biru wrote:
> >>
> >>drop nonfree stuff, fix headers
> >>
> >>Modified: PKGBUILD
> >>===================================================================
> >>--- PKGBUILD	2011-05-07 11:29:11 UTC (rev 122937)
> >>+++ PKGBUILD	2011-05-07 11:51:04 UTC (rev 122938)
> >>@@ -5,26 +5,28 @@
> >>
> >>-depends=('bzip2' 'lame' 'sdl' 'libvorbis' 'faac' 'xvidcore' 'zlib' 'x264' 'libtheora' 'opencore-amr' 'alsa-lib' 'libvdpau' 'libxfixes' 'schroedinger' 'libvpx' 'libva' 'openjpeg')
> >>+depends=('bzip2' 'lame' 'sdl' 'libvorbis' 'xvidcore' 'zlib' 'x264' 'libtheora' 'opencore-amr' 'alsa-lib' 'libvdpau' 'libxfixes' 'schroedinger' 'libvpx' 'libva' 'openjpeg')
> >>-    --enable-libfaac \
> >>-    --enable-nonfree \
> >
> >Is faac support in ffmpeg causing trouble to other applications or was
> >changed for licensing reasons?
>
> licensing. if you need faac you should use abs to recompile it

Gah. All this licensing stuff is starting to get really annoying.
Did Arch receive a patent license violation notice or something?

What is Arch's official policies when it comes to patents?
It could have some widespread implications for the distro.

Or the distro could purchase or otherwise aquire licenses to all claimed
patents...  ha...  ha...