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

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Sat May 7 14:43:43 EDT 2011


On 05/07/2011 09:21 PM, Gergely Imreh wrote:

>>> Will be also unlinked from mplayer?
>>>
>>
>> mplayer doesn't use system ffmpg
>>
>
> The question was aimed at the fact thatt mplayer too has faac as depends...
>
> As an opinion: I'd rather not want to recompile mplayer every time
> there's an update, been there before because of other reason, it's not
> much fun. Using mencoder to convert avis to mp4 to use on Android:
> those _do_ require faac, as much as I can tell....
>
> Greg

now i understand the question. It won't be removed. I did it for ffmpeg 
because it has a big warning after ./configure

License: nonfree and unredistributable

maybe mplayer does it right and doesn't link to incompatible licence

-- 
Ionuț


More information about the arch-general mailing list