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On 2/25/15 8:38 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> I would like to remove the elog for a couple of reasons: |
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> 1. The use flag description is there for whoever cares to read it. |
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> There is no need to alert the user every time. |
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> 2. We are not lawyers, and I have no business giving legal advice |
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> about patent law which varies from country to country. |
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> To take it one step further: I think it would make more sense to call |
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> the flag "h264" or something similar. We could then set |
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> RESTRICT="h264? ( bindist )" if we want to give some indication that |
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> it is not appropriate for binary redistribution. |
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Makes sense. |
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My suggestion for the flag name would actually be proprietary-codecs. |
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This matches config option name in Chromium sources, and it's not just |
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h264 but also e.g. MPEG-4 and MP3. |
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The flag would be disabled by default. |
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I'd then add RESTRICT="proprietary-codecs? ( bindist )" to the ebuild |
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and remove both elog messages. |
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Paweł |
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