[ITP] faad2 (2.8.8)

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Sun, 2023-02-05 at 22:04 -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-02-05 19:46, Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 19:36 +0900, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > I would like to propose a new package FAAD2 which is
> > > a decoder library for AAC audio codec. This package
> > > is needed by the new package moc I have proposed at
> > > the same time. I have already prepared the package at:
> > > 
> > > https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86_64/release/faad2/
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this cannot be included in the Cygwin distribution.
> 
> These packages are now GPL and available from Arch, Debian main repo, *BSD 
> ports, OpenSuSE, Slack, and more, so there may have been issues with 
> non-relocatable non-PIC assembler code, patents now
> expired/lapsed/challenged, 
> VideoLan or alternative commercial licensing, for example no commercial use 
> restrictions?
> Many codecs like these can be installed on Fedora, etc. from RPMfusion, 
> UnitedRPMs, or other repos.

Anything blocked from Fedora itself for legal reasons cannot be part of Cygwin
either.  Its inclusion in any other distro or repo is insufficient.

-- 
Yaakov