codec buddy pain

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 5 04:10:28 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 16:51 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> 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.
> 

fair enough.
codec buddy as implemented in codeina and as merged upstream includes
direct links to fluendo's non-free software for sale.

-sv





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