codec buddy pain

Vladimir Kosovac vnk at mkc.co.nz
Mon Nov 5 03:51:48 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:14 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/256974/
>>>
>>> Btw - in the interview they mention further integration of the webstore
>>> into codeina/codecbuddy. If it starts looking like we're pushing closed
>>> source software then that, imo, is when codeina gets dumped out of the
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> I don't care about needles and I don't want to ween the addicts off.
>> Pushing or making available?  Or making it easy?
>>
> 
> The precedent is what I'm most worried about:
> 
> we're okay having sales items for closed-source codecs in our distro
> what about drivers?
> what about closed-source application software? opera? matlab?
> 
> Seriously, at what point do we draw the line and what criteria do we use
> to distinguish one item from the other?
> 
If I may - wasn't that line drawn quite a while ago, by stating Fedora
goals?

Codec buddy inclusion does not leave a bad taste (although this is very
arguable) in the commercial context - the fact that it directly links to
 and encourages the use of non-Free stuff does.

Vladimir



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