Idea for expanded support of some non-free software

[Lance Lassetter]

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I hate to comment on this thread because of all of the
baiting/trolling/fud but:

Why isn't gst-plugin-ffmpeg included at least in multiverse?

Gstreamer plugins for mp3 (libmad0) are in multiverse, no?

Lance

Philippe Landau wrote:
| Jeff Waugh wrote:
|
|>> I know Ubuntu's mission is to support free software, but there are some
|>> instances when non-free software is the only option.
|>
|> Where non-free software is legally redistributable, it may be packaged
|> and
|> distributed through our unsupported multiverse repository. However,
|> much of
|> the software you've mentioned is *not* legally redistributable,
|> however much
|> we paper over the basic issue of it being non-free and unsupportable. :-)
|
| of course you could install it on your development computers,
| test it, make it work well, provide scripts
| guiding through the legal download from their original sources,
| and facilitate optional integration in the ubuntu desktop.
|
| this could be accompanied by pushing software that converts
| proprietary multimedia files using open source and free codecs
| and software encouraging sharing and streaming,
| encoding and burning such files to CD/DVD.
|
| currently, making DVD movies, flash, java, p2p, etc
| work on ubuntu is often a time consuming and uncertain challenge.
|
| kind regards     philippe
|
|
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