[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 352605] New: [PLUGIN-MOVE] please move wavpack to -good

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

Do not reply to this via email (we are currently unable to handle email
responses and they get discarded).  You can add comments to this bug at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352605
 GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | Ver: HEAD CVS

           Summary: [PLUGIN-MOVE] please move wavpack to -good
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-bad
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: slomo at ubuntu.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Hi,
please move the wavpack plugin from -bad to -good. All the requirements from
docs/random/moving-plugins should be fulfilled, only a sponsor and reviewer is
needed (and it would be nice to have the patch to bug #344472 committed
before).

Wavpack can go to -good as it is to Wavpack's author's and my best knowledge
not patent-encumbered.

Below is what the author of Wavpack told me regarding patents some months ago.

Bye

-------------
This is a little more difficult question! You are right to say that just
about everything is patented, and so it's difficult to to much without
breaking some obscure, over-broad patent that could never be enforced.

I can say that I have intentionally avoided everything that I know to be
patented, like arithmetic coding or LWZ (although I just noticed that this
patent has expired). The techniques I use are simple variations on linear
prediction and Rice coding, which are certainly considered patent-free. I
obviously cannot guarantee that some patent will not someday be discovered
that WavPack violates, but I can say that no suggestion has ever been made
to me that WavPack violates any patent (which interestingly is not true of
FLAC's technique, but I haven't heard anything of this lately).

Is that good enough?

Thanks,
David


-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug.
You are the assignee for the bug.