As Neal Gompa pointed out yesterday, the last standards essential patent
for AC-3 support expired:
https://ac3freedomday.org/
Accordingly, AC-3 is now legally permissible for Fedora and the Fedora
Community is working on moving A52dec (liba52) into Fedora as a result.
Christian Schaller has a very complete blog post on this topic here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/03/22/another-media-codec-on-the-way/
Please keep in mind that if you know of something that isn't
A52dec/liba52 or aften, that implements AC-3 natively (not just via
linking to liba52), please let Fedora Legal take a look at it (either
via emailing legal(a)fedoraproject.org, emailing this list, or blocking
the Review Ticket against FE-Legal). We just need to sanity check it
quickly before letting it in.
Thanks,
~tom
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