Why isn't cinelerra in the repositories?

[houseworkshy]

I know that one can put cinelerra in easily enough, they have made it very easy

http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

What I don't understand is why it isn't in the Ubuntu repositories, it has been around a quite a while, cinelerraCV seems to fit the FOSS guidelines ( or does it?) and ( I know that this is only my own bias ) it is far and away the best video editor I have seen for linux or otherwise and it's quite a small file. I suppose it does crash a bit but opens again in an instant right back where one was. Don't they want it in the Ubuntu repositories or doesn't Ubuntu think it's fit enough for some reason. I don't much like having to add ppa's but usually end up adding akirid.
Is there something wrong with this program or license? Just wondered.

[SeijiSensei]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/267614

I think there are issues regarding licensing, but I'm just speculating based on reading that bug report.

[houseworkshy]

Thanks that seems to be why

"On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:44, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> Be careful, more than 1000 Cinelerra source files do not have a
> proper license, a dozen are copyrighted by the MPEG group, another dozen
> are under the old ugly OpenDivX license, and you have many additional
> strange licensing terms in some files (such as free to copy and modify,
> but not to redistribute)."

Which seems a good explaination. Pity, maybe someday one could work out something similar to "restricted extras" or for programs like this, or perhaps it could go in mediabuntu ( which is another ppa of cource). I suppose I simply have more faith in the packages which are maintained or at least checked by Ubuntu developers.
I'll marked this solved in a day or two but leave it for now as the date of the quoted post is a few years old on the offchance someone may know of some recent change and would like to chime in. Looks like a very active project still.

You found that quick, thanks.

[cotcot]

You can easily install the akirad repository. Then you can get cinelerra through synaptic just as the other packages.

[feranick]

Builds for Maverick, Lucid, Karmic and Hardy of the latest version of Cinelerra 2.1.5CV are available in this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~cinelerra-ppa