Bug#515850: RFP: mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding

[Reinhard Tartler]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general as well.


[ CC'ed ftp-master, please see below ]

José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust at gmail.com> writes:

> It should be great if someone can package this tools for debian, a software 
> which I'm packaging depend on this tools.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467228

are you willing to package it under the pkg-multimedia umbrella?

> Its already packaged in ubuntu multiverse:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/mjpegtools
>
> There is also a version in debian-multimedia:
> http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/package/mjpegtools.php

Sure, ubuntu has imported some packages from marillat, including
mjpegtools.

> I don't understand why mjpegtools is in ubuntu multiverse because as
> far as I know, ubuntu multiverse is non-free software, but mjpegtools
> seems to be free software as its dependencies.

The debian/copyright file is close to useless. You need to inspect the
source manually to get an idea of its legal status.