On Jul 18, 2007, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Note that Free software but patent encumbered is not equivalent to > non-free. +1 > The Fluendo codecs are non-free. Yup. Although the copyright license might make it seem like it's Free Software, the patent license that's an integral part of the fluendo plugin offer imposes restrictions on the exercises of the rights granted by the copyright license, which renders the software as distributed non-Free. https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/trac/browser/trunk/gst-fluendo-mp3/LICENSE this software license does not allow you to redistribute or copy complete, ready to use mp3 software decoder binaries made from the Source Code as made available by Fluendo. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
