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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