Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin in Main for Dapper?

[Stephan Hermann]

On Friday 30 December 2005 04:49, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="John Nilsson">
>
> > The source is fine and free and what ever. The binary provided by fluendo
> > isn't. I thought the issue was about distributing the fluendo binary.
>
> The binary provided *by Fluendo* is free-as-in-beer. The binary that *we'd*
> build and distribute (under contract with Fluendo) would be
> free-as-in-beer. The source is free-as-in-speech in both cases (same
> source). We already have various free-as-in-beer things in restricted and
> multiverse. There are many subtleties involved here. :-)

So, actually we could ship this plugin in multiverse, but it is the same 
problem as when we stay with the mad plugin for gstreamer. 

Right now the question is, are we allowed (with respect to the patent owner 
and the laws in several countries) to ship this (from fluendos point of view 
legal plugin with patent license fees paid etc. blah) in main. Because 
everything else makes (IMHO) no sense. 

Regarding shipping this plugin in our main repositories (main or restricted) 
would make Ubuntu _the_ free distribution which rocks and dances most.

And, what if we build the binary from the source, which is MIT license, is the 
license of the resulting binary (after signing the contract with Fluendo) as 
well MIT licensed, or is it again not MIT?

Regards,

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