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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi
From:       Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-10-08 17:44:24
Message-ID: 3090174.Q6nZx7hBsM () malacandra
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On Monday 8. October 2012 16.52.48 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> For us in Fedora, this would be not just nice, but REQUIRED. We cannot ship
> anything depending on FFmpeg in Fedora.

Why not? Don't you ship the Linux kernel (which is a much worse minefield 
patent-wise in practice, people have actually gotten sued for using it, unlike 
ffmpeg)?


> Now ideally you wouldn't depend on FFmpeg at all! I especially don't
> understand why you need an AV decoding library to do indexing.

Because as a modern free desktop environment we are expected to support and 
grok multimedia. And ffmpeg is the best library to do this, it supports pretty 
much every video format out there, and is actively developed.

-- 
Martin Sandsmark
KDE

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