[Fedora-legal-list] tivodecode package

Bernard Johnson bjohnson80498 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 17:36:52 UTC 2009


I need a ruling on whether tivodecode can be accepted into Fedora.  It's 
currently submitted to rpmfusion, but Kevin Koffler thought it might be 
able to be accepted into Fedora proper.

There were three things under consideration:
* Freeness of QUALCOMM software license - appears to be free software
* QUALCOMM encryption patents (free?)
* MPEG program stream decoding (not decompression)

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342

Seems that the question regarding MPEG program stream decoding is 
perhaps not and issue as pointed out by Kevin in comment #3.  But the 
freeness of the patent license is questionable.




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