mp3 help...
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Sat Oct 25 11:58:04 UTC 2003
On Saturday 25 October 2003 12:34, Erik Englund wrote:
> > This is why you get the mp3 rpms easily from non US servers. And this is
> > why Mandrake (french) and SuSE (german) can distribute p3 capable stuff.
> > (it being not GPL compatible left aside)
>
> exactly, so why don't fedora have an European release on a European
> server that US people are not aloud to download? I mean, how many US
It doesn't really make a great deal of difference so long as rpms are readily
available for xmms MPG3 and mplayer (they are, eg, freshrpms.net), its just a
small post-install action that needs to be done (along with killing artsd,
Noatun and Kaboodle)... Redhat don't have to get involved with that at all.
Looking at the way Redhat stepped up with SCO, I feel happier they are
Caesar's Wife on the subject and are acting conservatively to protect their
cashpile for Doing Good In The World.
If you feel really worked up about it, consider making a Fedora++ or
MetaFedora, which can include the Forbidden Fruits, maybe you can distribute
it as an rsync patch to the official redhat ISO, that way you won't have
trouble with the Redhat TM artwork and stuff. In fact if you consider this
you should get together with the text-to-speech guy, it can include his
patched kernel... in fact everything that Redhat reject but somebody loves
could end up in it, a kind of consolation distro.
-Andy
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