xine-lib: splitting off patented stuff

[Sebastian Dröge]

Hi,
I'm currently looking at xine-lib and trying to find out which parts are
to be split off because of the patent situation and which parts are ok.
This was previously something daniels wanted to do and I took it from
him because he already has enough other stuff to do.
This is mostly to allow us to ship totem-xine in the future.

Currently I have the following parts of xine-lib which are suspect...

* src/libffmpeg - ffmpeg source, not really patent free but could be in
universe
* src/libmad - contains the complete mad sources which are also in main
as a separated package but can't be shipped on CD for legal reasons
* src/libfaad - contains the complete faad2 sources which are currently
also in multiverse as a separated package. legal situation is worse than
for mad

and some other parts for which I don't know the legal situation
* src/libmpeg2 - contains the complete libmpeg2 sources which are in
main in a separate package
* src/liba52,src/libdts,src/libxineadec/gsm610 - same as for libmpeg2
are these legally safe and could be shipped on CD?

all other parts of the sources are safe

I would propose one multiverse package for all suspect parts as it seems
to be nonesense to me to create one sourcepackage for faad2 in
multiverse and one for the others in universe

Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks and Bye :)
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