Package: liblivemedia
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: mangoc...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Debian Bug report #981451 led to the removal of liblivemedia because: It
contains non-free code
from RFC 3550 (#981439). Upstream is not showing an activity to fix this issue,
so let's get rid of it.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I recently contacted supp...@live555.com, the upstream maintainer of live555
asking him about the status of
this issue, some time later he replied:
"Mike,
I have just installed a new version (2025.04.25) of the “LIVE555 Streaming
Media” code
that will resolve this (all files in the code now have the same (LGPL)
license)."
* What was the outcome of this action?
I am uncertain if this change meets everything expected by the Debian
maintainers, if there are lingering
issues around recoding the source copied from RFC 3550 I offer my assistance in
doing that recoding if the
live555 maintainer doesn't want to handle it himself.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected RTSP streaming video support to be replaced in packages like vlc,
ffmpeg and others long before
now, but still Debian and its downstream distributions make restoration of RTSP
streaming support quite
difficult for end users, like me.
I hope that by addressing the root cause issues that got liblivemedia removed
in the first place, users
of RTSP protocol (quite common in the IP video camera arena) can once again
enjoy seamless support from
Debian packages like vlc and many others, as they did before liblivemedia was
removed.
Thank you,
Mike Inman
mangoc...@gmail.com
