AAC codec may be removed from Ubuntu repos
Ubuntu 10.04 users wishing to play AAC format audio may find themselves out of luck.
A closer examination of the libfaac codec, a free software project containing an AAC encoder installable and used by various packages in the Ubuntu repositories, has turned up a conflict: the codec cannot be freely distributed under the LGPL, a common license used for the distribution of media libraries in free software, due to the inclusion of several other licenses' which are incompatible with the LGPL. This is despite the fact libfaac declares itself as compatible with LGPL.
"FAAC contains some code which is published as Free Software, but as a whole it is only distributed under a proprietary license."
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