port-hppa/42810: VLC has dependency on libdca-0.0.5 which is not available due to 'RESTRICTED= Unresolved patent issue'

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>Number:         42810
>Category:       port-hppa
>Synopsis:       VLC has dependency on libdca-0.0.5 which is not available due 
>to 'RESTRICTED=     Unresolved patent issue'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-hppa-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 14 13:55:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Jeremy Sharp
>Release:        5.0.1_2009Q4
>Organization:
nope
>Environment:
NetBSD sneeuwwitje 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 01:39:11 UTC 
2009  
builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 i386
>Description:
Unable to install VLC from pkgsrc because libdca is not available in the repo, 
evidently due to "unresolved patent issues." tnn on FreeNode #NetBSD suggested 
I should file a PR to get this looked at. Here's the output of pkgin:

sneeuwwitje$ pkgin install vlc
calculating dependencies for vlc...
1 packages to be upgraded: libltdl-1.5.26
36 packages to be installed: ttmkfdir2-20021109nb3 xvidcore-1.2.2 
lame-3.98.2nb1 libf2c-20090201nb3 fftw-3.2.2nb1 speex-1.2rc1nb1 
libsndfile-1.0.21 libsamplerate-0.1.7 gdbm-1.8.3nb1 lcms-1.18.0.1nb1 
mng-1.0.10nb1 x264-devel-20090326 taglib-1.6.1 qt4-libs-4.5.3nb2 
pulseaudio-0.9.14nb6 libtheora-1.1.1nb1 libmpeg2-0.5.1 libmpcdec-1.2.6 
libmatroska-0.8.1 libmad-0.15.1bnb1 liblive-20080725 libid3tag-0.15.1bnb2 
libebml-0.7.8 libdvdread-4.1.3 libdvdplay-1.0.1nb3 libdvdnav-4.1.3 
libdvbpsi-0.1.6 libdca-0.0.5 libcdio-0.82 libcddb-1.3.2 liba52-0.7.4nb3 
flac-1.2.1nb1 ffmpeg-20090611nb5 dejavu-ttf-2.30 libltdl-2.2.6b vlc-1.0.4 (23M 
to download, 147M to install)
proceed ? [y/N] y
downloading packages...
pkgin: could not fetch url: 
ftp://ftp.nl.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/current-packages/NetBSD/i386/5.0.1_2009Q4/All//libdca-0.0.5.tgz:
 File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
sneeuwwitje$ 

>How-To-Repeat:
Try and install VLC
>Fix:
Remove dependency to libdca