Codec metapackages?

[Cory K.]

ttoine at ttoine.net wrote:
> Cory K. a écrit :
>   
>> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:  
>>>       
>>>> I'm wondering if we should go through the trouble of creating to
>>>> metapackages for A/V codecs? The obvious free and nonfree.
>>>>
>>>> They would include any audio *and* video codec that fits into either
>>>> category. "Free" could ship on the disks.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> -Cory \m/
>>>>         
>>> Codecs are in a legal void I am not very clear about. I would need
>>> somebody to clarify me how does Ubuntu and Canonical deal with sharing
>>> codecs that don't explicitely permit this in their license uses. Maybe
>>> having a metapackage of so in an official project as Ubuntu Studio is
>>> a lawyer no no.
>>>
>>> Luis
>>>       
>> I shoulda mentioned this. Maybe just split the 2 based on archive.
>> free=Universe, nonfree=Multiverse. That way, we should be clear. And the
>> lists that actually make up the metas is up for debate. I'm more just
>> wondering about the validity of the idea.
>>
>> -Cory \m/
>>     
>
> Maybe this should be a package we can propose to the Medibuntu project.
>
> Thay already have a metapackage for the w32/w64/ppc codecs packages,
> wich choose the good codec package depending on your cpu kind. It should
> be possible to add a bigger list of package in this metapackage, I guess.
>
> Toine
>   

Please don't top-post. :)

I wanna keep as many things in the repo as we can. So we'll look to the
official repos 1st.

-Cory \m/