The Multimedia Question
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 20:08:42 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 21:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Max Spevack wrote:
>
> > 4) To what extent is it appropriate for hooks or other "stuff that makes
> > it easier for someone to do non-free stuff like CodecBuddy" to exist in
> > Fedora? We need to decide on this from a philosophical standpoint. The
> > lawyers will help us with the legal standpoint.
>
> Note that Free software but patent encumbered is not equivalent to
> non-free. The Fluendo codecs are non-free. Pointing to a third party
> repository with Free software is obviously not a non-free solution.
Last time I checked, the Fluendo codecs were under a BSD license. That's
a free software license.
~spot
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