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Debian status

Posted Jun 2, 2025 19:02 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Debian status by jzb
Parent article: OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora

Straight from the bug log: Debian patent policy is <https://www.debian.org/legal/patent>

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Posted Jun 2, 2025 19:46 UTC (Mon) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (3 responses)

That does detail Debian's overall patent policy, but doesn't provide any info about the specific decision to package OpenH264. If anything, it seems to argue against doing so.

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Posted Jun 2, 2025 20:56 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I do not think there have been any specific decision to package openH264, this is the whole point of the patent policy, which is basically: do not speak about patent.

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Posted Jun 2, 2025 23:45 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

libx264-164 is not OpenH264, but libx264. The libopenh264-8 library is OpenH264 though.

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Posted Jun 3, 2025 6:20 UTC (Tue) by Gerardo (subscriber, #37539) [Link]

$ apt-cache search libopenh264
libopenh264-7 - OpenH264 Video Codec
libopenh264-dev - OpenH264 Video Codec - development files
libopenh264-cisco7 - OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
libopenh264-8 - OpenH264 Video Codec
libopenh264-cisco8 - OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.