Add explanation of why videolink is in the contrib section

[videolink.git] / debian / copyright

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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-This is the Debian-packaged version of VideoLink.
+This is the Debian-packaged version of VideoLink.  It is not part of
+the Debian system itself because it requires an MPEG-2 video encoder
+and Debian cannot distribute these due to patent threats.
 
 Copyright 2005, 2006 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.