Kaffeine 1.0 and Kubuntu

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 19:59:34 (CEST), Scott Kitterman wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:40:24 pm Jonathan Thomas wrote:
>> On Wed 21 Jul 2010 12:32:59 pm Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 17:59:04 (CEST), Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> > > smplayer almost certainly not, mplayer has licencing isues which
>> > > prevent it being on the CD.
>> > 
>> > Could you please elaborate on these licensing issues? The package is in
>> > universe and licensed under GPL. As maintainer of the package in debian
>> > and upstream contributor, I'm really curious to learn about your
>> > licensing concerns of mplayer.
>> 
>> It looks like it is and has always been in multiverse:
>> https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer
>> 
>> It also depends on libmp3lame0, which is in multiverse. (Not sure if that's
>> the sole reason for its residence in multiverse or not)

I believe this is an error, but didn't find the time to overwork the
debian/copyright files and request their promotion. They are all GPL
licensed packages that should be perfectly acceptable license-wise for
kubuntu.

That was btw the main reason I've asked for your concerns. I understand
that there are actually none.

> Beyond that, even if the non-free depends could be dropped there is also:
>
> libavcodec cannot be shipped on CDs (c.f. Ubuntu technical board resolution 
> 2007-01-02)

I suspected that, but this has nothing to do with software licenses.

AFAIUI, vlc loads libavcodec.so at runtime via
/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so, similar to xine which
kubuntu currently uses. The major difference is that for xine, the
'avcodec' plugin is in the package 'libxine1-ffmpeg', which is
blacklisted on the CDs as well. I'm pretty sure that something similar
could be arranged for vlc as well. We haven't done that yet because
there is (was) no technical necessity for this.

All in all, this all sounds like a realistically solvable problem to me.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4