Maxim Heijndijk wrote:
> I have rebuilt all RPMS that I had lying around for some time on 2008.1,
> on my home system, and uploaded all this stuff to
> ftp://ftp.mandriva.com/incoming/cooker Maybe some of them are of use:

I'll try to take a look once they get mirrored into the cluster.

Big thank you for your work.


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> shorten and mac should probably be in PLF.

For the record, shorten COPYING contains this:
<-->
This software may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is
sold without prior permission from SoftSound. When no charge is made,
this software may be copied and distributed freely.

Permission is granted to use this software for decoding and
non-commercial encoding (e.g. private or research use). Please email
shorten@(protected).
<-->

This license indeed puts this into PLF non-free, unless we get some kind
of permission from softsound. AFAICS the last official release from
softsound was in 1999.


Regarding mac, the license problems are explained here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@(protected)

Even with the restrictions, it could go into Mandriva non-free, *if* it
would clearly allow redistribution. Reading the license it was probably
intended, but the right to redistribute is not explicitly granted.


Maxim, I think we want to limit the amount of non-free stuff, PLF or
not. Are the 'mac' and 'shorten' actually needed for something? FFmpeg
should have decoding support for these already, and free alternative
codecs exist (flac) if you want to encode losslessy.

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>
> mac-3.99_u4_b5-1mdv2008.1.src.rpm
>
> Monkey's Audio Codec (MAC) utility
>
> * zo jun 01 2008 Maxim Heijndijk <macchus at gmail dot com>
> 3.99_u4_b5-1mdv2008.1
> - Initial wrap for Mandriva 2008.1
[...]
> shorten-3.6.1-1mdv2008.1.src.rpm
>
> Low complexity and fast waveform encoder
>
> * zo jun 01 2008 Maxim Heijndijk <macchus at gmail dot com>
> 3.6.1-1mdv2008.1
> - Initial build for Mandriva
> - Spec from Dag Wieers <dag@(protected)>
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