What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ... packages due to licensing issues"

[Bill Nottingham]

Randall J. Parr (RParr at TemporalArts.COM) said: 
> * This merger necessitates the removal of certain problematic packages
> due to licensing issues.
> 
> 
> Does this mean that we will no longer be able to go to Fedora to pickup 
> the MP3, mplayer, etc. packages which have not been included in recent 
> Red Hat releases because of potential licensing problems.

Correct. 

While I can't speak for certain, I'm sure there will be third
party repository maintainers willing to host such software.

Bill