Fedora's way forward

[Per Bjornsson]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:54 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 05:46 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If you'd like additional proprietary third party material such as real
> > player and IBM Java nobody is stopping you.
> 
> Those are two examples where Fedora really _could_ catch up. We should
> really concentrate on getting gcjwebplugin and swfdec (or gnash)
> shippable by FC6.

Unfortunately it's probably not that easy to do something legal about
Flash - at least if you want it to make sound... Doesn't Flash use MP3
for audio? And what is the video format used in recent Flash versions?

Swfdec may be able to do an end-run around this by using gstreamer, in
that case all the parts legally possible can be shipped by Fedora, and
other stuff can get plugged in by users by means of plug-ins.

/Per