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
