Some people clearly feel like codeina is doing the Fedora world a much-needed service, and others clearly feel that it isn't. The Board decided last week that it's in the latter camp[1], but the decision to keep the open-source MP3 codec offering and strip out the other closed-source codec offerings rankled several people[2,3,4]. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-March/msg00111.html [2] http://bpepple.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/ [3] http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/fedora-board-masters-of-epic-fail/ [4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/24120.html Other Board members and I responded[5,6,7] to invite people to discuss the matter here. [5] http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/patching-out-non-free-code-offers-in-codeina/ [6] http://paul.frields.org/?p=945 [7] http://iquaid.org/2008/03/16/fluendo-bastien-et-al-im-sorry-fwiw/ Is someone willing to take up maintainership of Codeina for F9 at this point? Would it be (A) fitting, or (B) autocratic, for someone on the Board to take up that responsibility? Bill Nottingham indicated previously on this list that there were ways to change Codeina to allow drop-in data.[8] Is someone interested in pursuing that? [8] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-February/msg00072.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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