Comment 8 for bug 432701

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Annirak (annirak) wrote : Re: [Bug 432701] Re: amarok missing dependency

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Christian Mangold
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Unfortunately libxine1-ffmpeg cannot be in a default installation due to
> it's license.
>

http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

You closed the bug because of a non-existant licensing issue.
In addition, as Terence pointed out, the library is in the main repository
of Ubuntu, so Canonical does not recognize the licensing--or patent--issues.

If Canonical does not recognize the issue and provides the library under the
main--not restricted, universe, or multiverse--repository, it doesn't make
sense to not fix this dependency.

For reference, the me-tv and xine-ui packages already depend on
libxine1-ffmpeg.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Christian Mangold
<email address hidden>wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Licensing_and_patent_issues
>
> --
> amarok missing dependency
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432701
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>
> Status in “amarok” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: amarok
>
> After installing amarok on ubuntu 9.04, it would not play any music.
> Eventually identified the problem as a missing dependency on
> libxine1-ffmpeg.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: amarok 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: amarok
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64
>

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