gstreamer-plugins ?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 01:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Why is that stuff in -bad and not -ugly, when that's supposed to be the
> > point of -ugly?
> 
> -ugly is only for stuff which would be in -good if it weren't for patent or 
> licensing issues. -bad isn't split per license, it's code upstream considers 
> unstable and which they probably didn't even bother auditing for license or 
> patent issues. The problem is that it has codecs which are actually needed, 
> such as Schroedinger/Dirac support. So Fedora now ships what it can ship out 
> of it. Maybe upstream should be splitting -bad into -bad and -badandugly or 
> something like that. ;-)

yeah, that's true. I'd wondered about that for a while, in fact. I kinda
assumed the descriptions implied that anything with patent issues must
go into ugly, but having four groups would seem the most sensible way to
do it.
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