Bug 5294

Summary:	Adding AAC support for pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Gergely Gombos <gombosg>
Component:	pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld	Assignee:	Gergely Gombos <gombosg>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	leigh123linux
Priority:	P1
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Bug Depends on:	5295
Bug Blocks:

Description Gergely Gombos 2019-06-22 18:03:10 CEST

Now that fdk-aac-free is considered GPL compatible by Fedora legal [1], I'm going to add fdk-aac-free as a build dependency for the package to support AAC compatible Bluetooth headsets. The package can stay in the free repo this way.

Since there are issues with the fdk-aac-free codec [2], I could also use the fdk-aac codec here in RPMFusion but it's still in the nonfree repo. Is it planned to be move to the free repo?

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OVW25JRWOKOLVMW3XGUX7E4OXFUR2RCG/

[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1711040

Comment 1 leigh scott 2019-06-23 07:40:11 CEST

rpmfusion fdk-aac is still nonfree as it hasn't been castrated like the fedora package, it will remain nonfree till the patents expire.


Tom was very clear on that.

> For this (and only this) specific implementation of fdk-aac, we believe that the FDK AAC license is GPL compatible.

Comment 2 Gergely Gombos 2019-06-23 19:45:55 CEST

Thanks Leigh. Although I'm getting confused by Nicolas Chauvet's comment [1] in #5295. He seems to contradict Fedora Legal's standpoint but I don't know why. Or maybe we are just misunderstanding each other (I was asking about the fdk-aac-free Fedora package and maybe he was describing fdk-aac RPMFusion package).

Anyhow, I'm going to make a build with fdk-aac-free and see if the codec works properly for these headsets.

[1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5295#c3

Comment 3 Gergely Gombos 2019-08-06 17:13:33 CEST

Works fine, pushed to stable, closing bug.