You might want to read this regarding the license issue: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2006/12/20/lets-hear-the-communitys-voice-the-faad-2-5-licensing-issue
I also tried to contact ahead a few times in the past with absolutely no answer. As you might've noticed I'm maintaining this package since more than a year now for Ubuntu and we've taken the last CVS snapshot because of this issue and various other bugfixes for portability, broken API, etc you might be interested in. Otherwise I could give you some patches in early January as I'm currently busy... Bye
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