What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Thomas Dodd]

Justin Georgeson wrote:
> The whole issue is getting a GPL compatible license to the patents, so 
> that a truely GPL licensed player can be built on them. Both the player 

That would be nice. I personally would prefer stickin with ogg-vorbis, 
assuming it's not later found to infringe on someone's patent. Best 
solution is invalidate all software patents, and prevent any future 
ones. I'm not holding my breath though.

> and the patent need to have GPL compatible licenses, otherwise they 
> won't be shipped in RHEL/FC.

Perhaps I missed something. RHEL and FC will contain only GPL and GPL 
compatible code? Limitations on commercial reuse of the code should be 
OK, such that the code cod be used on corportate machines, as long as 
you aren't selling the code or something that is substantially a 
derivative. So a distribution/collection is OK, but a commercial 
player,encoder,decoder isn't, embedded or not.

	-Thomas