Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:58:04 -0400 From: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED Message-ID: <20020828155804.GA58772@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <akipit$1til$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> <akipit$1til$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:17:49PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >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. And mp3 playing is also what 99.9% of xmms users use it for, I would guess. Excising it would be impractical; it would upset a great many people if they did a portupgrade and found that xmms could no longer play mp3 files, or even be rebuilt configured to do so. Even making it a non-default would mean packages would be useless to almost all users, so they'd have to build from the port, and that's the same effect as marking it restricted. Marking it restricted would have the least distruptive effect on xmms, all other things being left as is. AFA trasitivity goes, my own opinion is that no, it should not be applied transitively unless the mp3 codec is linked statically. Id3 code should remain unaffected, AFAIK. There's also the question of whether we can keep the distfiles on our servers anymore. I think that perhaps legal needs to be involved on that decision. -- AlanE KDE-FreeBSD Team (http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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