From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gst-plugins-ugly Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <87h9pf2463.fsf@netris.org> References: <1434604057-17996-1-git-send-email-david.hashe@dhashe.com> <87bngdi0z0.fsf@elephly.net> <87616az92s.fsf@elephly.net> <87r3omrjxh.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnfqkewp.fsf@elephly.net> <71aad7a2d64a7c5fb0c4e2db0c228905@hypermove.net> <99b4df2c48c6ae183a8a21ae85c9c710@hypermove.net> <87fv512i72.fsf@netris.org> <874mlg2eup.fsf_-_@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCXws-00040L-HG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:50:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCXwn-00027H-Ej for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:50:30 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:35780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCXwn-00027B-B3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:50:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874mlg2eup.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:59:26 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Hashe Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Mark H Weaver writes: > David Hashe writes: > >> Thanks for clarifying. Besides patents, my other concern was >> licensing. Specifically, the page I linked about gst-plugins-ugly >> includes the following: >> >> The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might >> not be how we'd like. > > Yes, we'll need to investigate this. > >> Rather vague, but a bit worrying. However, you're right that Debian >> includes it, as do Trisquel and Parabola (both free distributions), so >> I agree that this is probably something we can include. > > I looked in Parabola's blacklist > and didn't find > issues listed with gst-plugins-ugly, so I guess that's a good sign. > > I've attached a preliminary 'gst-plugins-ugly' package for Guix. Note > that this depends on commit 23da88f61e82e2b32d6dedb3af467f665cd03bf5 > "gnu: liba52: Build shared library", which I pushed to master just a few > minutes ago. I've since added libmpeg2 (commit e088410984) and noticed that we already have libdvdread and libdvdnav (which I just updated). Here's an updated version of my preliminary 'gst-plugins-ugly' patch. Mark --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0001-gnu-Add-gst-plugins-ugly.patch Content-Description: [PATCH] gnu: Add gst-plugins-ugly >From 60e3d1398cf058b10947727dcb8c97b11332c8e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark H Weaver Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 02:36:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add gst-plugins-ugly. * gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm (gst-plugins-ugly): New variable. --- gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm b/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm index 0f3a0fb..7ab96d2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm @@ -243,6 +243,46 @@ GStreamer multimedia library. This set contains those plug-ins which the developers consider to have good quality code and correct functionality.") (license lgpl2.0+))) +(define-public gst-plugins-ugly + (package + (name "gst-plugins-ugly") + (version "1.4.5") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/" + name "/" name "-" version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0rwhljn3f8mp2pfchzfcx4pvps1546dndw9mr56lz50qyqffimaw")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (inputs + `(("gst-plugins-base" ,gst-plugins-base) + ("liba52" ,liba52) + ("libmad" ,libmad) + ("lame" ,lame) + ("libcdio" ,libcdio) + ("twolame" ,twolame) + ("libmpeg2" ,libmpeg2) + ("libdvdread" ,libdvdread) + ;; TODO: + ;; * opencore-amr (for the AMR-NB decoder and encoder and the + ;; AMR-WB decoder) + ;; * x264 (for the x264enc H.264 encoder) + ;; + ("orc" ,orc))) + (native-inputs + `(("glib:bin" ,glib "bin") + ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + ("python-wrapper" ,python-wrapper))) + (home-page "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/") + (synopsis + "GStreamer plugins from the \"ugly\" set.") + (description "GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins. This set contains those plug-ins +which the developers consider to have good quality code but that might pose +distribution problems in some jurisdictions, e.g. due to patent threats.") + (license lgpl2.0+))) + (define-public gst-libav (package (name "gst-libav") -- 2.4.3 --=-=-=--