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

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 05/07/2011 03:43 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
> 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
>
Many packages in Arch Linux are considered "non-free" in other distros 
this is what I much like about Arch Linux :)


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