What is the best way to have a private mirror for codecs.fedoraproject.org? It’s referenced by EPEL for openh264. The host doesn’t respond to rsync. It doesn’t seem to be part of any of the mirror list that I can find. I’m mirroring codecs.fedoraproject.org with wget --mirror but it’s slow and inefficient. I’d much rather use a more elegant tool like rsync if possible.
For context, we’re developing retrogrid.io, a temporal mirror of Operating System history. Think: mirror + wayback machine + Vault + administrator support.
Because (as I recall) Cisco pays the maximum
license fee/yr for an organization ($10M/yr last I
looked). As I recall, Cisco did that not because
they care about Fedora (so to speak), but because
they care about WebRTC as being the universal
real time communications protocol.
While never confirmed, it is presumed that Google
also pays the max fee per year ($10M/yr) for their
Chrome browser’s binary distribution that supports
H.264.
If someone (i.e. @yesthatguy) is willing to commit
to $10M/yr for, well, forever, I suspect Fedora
could redistribute openh264 with appropriate
authorizarion (if @yesthatguy has those funds, I
would recoomend they contact the Fedora council
to discuss next steps).
The patent holders and licensing organizations
saw the writing on the wall, and H.265 no longer
has the individual organizational limits (fool me
once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me).
AV1 is a better path forward.
Thank you very much for your detailed and informative explanation. This, of course, has quite a chilling effect on our effort to document and preserve operating system history, but it’s not the first time this has happened.
We’ll review with legal counsel what we’re allowed to do in order to move forward.