multimedia licensing
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 05:58:46 UTC 2005
kwhiskers wrote:
> I have a question:
>
> Many times I have heard that Fedora cannot be a fully functioning
> operating system because of licensing constraints.
It can but we cant provide it due to patent concerns.
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html
>
>
> My question is:
>
> Why are other distributions not plagued by these same constraints?
> They're all Linux.
Every Linux distribution that ships only open source software and is
based on regions where software patents are enforced will be affected.
regards
Rahul
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