From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 28 8:30:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C3337B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A753343E81 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17k4m4-00039g-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:30:28 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SFHpaI063071 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:17:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7SFHonq063070 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:17:50 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: RFC: mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trevor Johnson wrote: > The Fraunhofer Institute seems to have discontinued the exception it was > making for free software. It looks like you propose to blindly slap a RESTRICTED on every port that somehow deals with MP3s. I don't think the situation is so dire that we have to act right now and can't take a few days to fix things properly. Some of those ports aren't encoders or decoders. Surely an ID3 tag editor is not covered by Fraunhofer's patent claims. Also, should RESTRICTED by applied transitively? For instance, mpg321 is just some glue code between libao and libmad. All the MP3 decoding is in libmad, and mpg321 is dynamically linked. Should mpg321 still be marked RESTRICTED? For some of the affected ports, MP3 playing is only a small part of overall functionality and could be excised / made optional. XMMS is the foremost example I have in mind. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message