[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.5+svn20090609-1-10-g94629f3
siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
Tue Jul 7 07:55:32 UTC 2009
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 1606c480eb2d76f673001cba1868a9c01eed214b
Author: Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
Date: Tue Jul 7 07:18:52 2009 +0200
clarifications suggested by upstream in README.Source
clarify that ffmpeg in main was never patent free and the change here
doesn't change anything about that here.
diff --git a/debian/README.Source b/debian/README.Source
index dfdbd49..1ef12bf 100644
--- a/debian/README.Source
+++ b/debian/README.Source
@@ -25,11 +25,10 @@ Several complications have come along with the aforementioned measures:
Nowadays, while the situation remains pretty unchanged with regard to
the patent threat, the ffmpeg build system has seen a lot of
improvements. It now provides the possibility to explicitly disable
-specific codecs from the libraries at configure time, allowing to remain
-free of patent encumbered codecs without the need to strip the source
-code anymore. The effect on the resulting binary packages would remain
-the same as before, i.e. Debian will not ship any patent encumbered
-encoders in its packages.
+specific codecs from the libraries at configure time, allowing disabling
+some patent encumbered codecs without the need to strip the source code.
+The effect on the resulting binary packages would remain the same as
+before.
Regarding the source code, however, this would mean some significant
improvements:
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