Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
Like I've told several other people, it would depend on the precise way
that it is implemented.
Draft out a specific flow of action (with the exact wording) for what
you want to implement, and lets discuss it amongst ourselves. When we
are in agreement that it is the sort of thing that we'd like to try to
do, I'll run it past the lawyers, and we'll go from there.
The problem unfortunately is that, we don't seem to get past the stage
where we want to guess whether it's legal or not and nobody wants to
discuss what is that we want to accomplish assuming it is legal.
What I would want us to accomplish:
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Codeina offers a legal solution via Fluendo for those in regions that
accept and enforce patents on software. Unfortunately this favors a
non-free solution while there are perfectly legal (in regions which
don't enforce patents on software which happen to be the majority of the
world) free and open source software available via third party
repositories for Fedora.
What I would like for us to be able to do is point to a third party
repository (specifically the free repo of RPM Fusion) as a alternative
source in addition to Fluendo.
We have spending nitpicking my suggestions on how to accomplish this
rather than whether the above goal is something we agree on the whole or
not and then figure out how best to accomplish it.
Assuming we do, what I am suggesting below is a couple of potential ways
to get that done. Feel free to suggest better alternatives. Spot, I am
especially interested in hearing any proposals from you considering that
you are likely to be a better judge of what is allowed.
How To Get It Done
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Solution 1
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Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Codeina to understand
what I am talking about.
* Retain the first dialog as it is.
* In the second dialog box, above "available products", have a link
"click here for free alternatives" which refers to a Fedora Wiki page
that references http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy and links to
the RPM Fusion free repo release package.
Solution 2
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* In the first dialog, modify it so that it says, For more information,
refer to the Fedora Project website which links to the CodecBuddy wiki
page.
* Drop the "see available options" button and codeina.
* In http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy, refer to the Fluendo
website as well as RPM Fusion free repo release package.
Solution 3
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* Retain everything else as it is.
* Just modify http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy to link to the
RPM Fusion free repo release package.
Rahul
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