Problems with the licensing of the faac library could lead to it having to be removed from Ubuntu’s distribution or moved to the “restricted” repositories where license encumbered codecs are kept More here

Libfaac is used to encode audio into the AAC format, which is used alongside a range of video formats to provide a soundtrack. The issue, reported on OMGUbuntu, arises due to some files in faac being under a non-free licence, despite the package being licensed as LGPL.

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