On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:37 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:21:11 -0500 > Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > seth vidal wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > >> seth vidal wrote: > > >>> If that's the case then we should just give up on this quixotic goal of > > >>> having a pure-free-software distro and start talking to companies for > > >>> how they'd like us to provide their closed-source packages and how to > > >>> tie a webstore frontend into yum. > > >> yumgate! woo! > > >> > > >> In all seriousness I don't think that there are a lot of instances where > > >> we would be willing to do something like what we've done in this case. > > >> I'm happy with inconsistency, as long we're transparent about it. > > >> > > >> In this case it's just because there's no other legal way to do it. We > > >> can't even ship the free versions because of patent concerns. > > >> > > > > > > This is what I'm looking for here. I'd like to be able to say something > > > that kinda-sorta makes sense for reasons to say no to money from some > > > vendor to put an ad for their software in the distro. > > > > Hmm. Trying to firm up the message here. > > > > For me this was all about consuming content. The basic problem we're > > trying to solve for end users is that there's a lot of content on the > > web that requires access to patent-encumbered code. In order to keep > > Fedora relevant for the real world, we felt that we needed to make an > > exception for end users to legally obtain codecs to view encumbered content. > > Wait... what prevented users from legally obtaining codecs from fluendo > before? Nothing from what I remember... > nothing, it was just not trivial nor contextual to trying to use those formats. That's what codeina has done - but it's brought something else into relief. We have this software in the distro now that a big portion of is providing a window for advertisements for closed-source codecs from another company. That's the precedent that concerns me. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
