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

[Alan Cox]

> I sometimes wish Redhat would just buy the license. It is becoming very
> inconvenient for us. With fedora now merged with Redhat, we now have to

Red Hat is a free software company.

> am no longer encoding my cds into mp3, but I have so many mp3's, it is a
> hassle to to this nicely with Redhat. How much does the license cost. Is
> it not $50,000 for the perpetual license.

If you see a business opportunity to sell legal mp3 codecs to people go do
it. You'll need to build from a non GPL player but you can even license
the player core code too.. for a fee.