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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008
From:       Johannes Wiedersich <johannes () physik ! blm ! tu-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2008-12-03 9:29:08
Message-ID: 49365164.5040604 () physik ! blm ! tu-muenchen ! de
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> sense.  I wonder why they were dropped from Debian, is it not able to 
> participate in some of the Fluendo stuff or something else?

They were most likely dropped because 'Debian is 100% free software' and
some of these multimedia packages are not 100% free. In Debian's
definition of free software 'free' includes 'free from patents'. 'lame'
as a particular example may not be distributed in binary form [1], and
therefore can not be distributed as an official debian package.

For what I can see from [2], Fluendo is commercial software that can not
be distributed freely, ie. can not be distributed by debian. It's ubuntu
version is sold from [3].

HTE,

Johannes

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME#Patents_and_legal_issues

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluendo

[3]
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244&osCsid=6cd5e6f902059676a87d53bf30e984ee
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