On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 15:28 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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. > > So which is the worse scenario? > > 1. Providing no support at all to MP3 users? > > 2. Encouraging MP3 users to break the law? > > 3. Pointing MP3 users to a legal solution that privileges a particular > vendor -- with the possibility of including other vendors later? > > There are no easy answers here. If there we're, we'd have solved the > problem by now. imo it would be best to provide mp3 decode support via codeina, only and not provide the for-pay links to the other codecs. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
