Chris Jones wrote:
Nothing from multiverse is on the shipped CDs, nor is it enabled by
default. It's exactly the same as rpmfusion, etc.. You have to add it
to sources.list yourself.
Indeed. All ubuntu does beyond Fedora is make it a little easier for the
user to add these additional repos if they choose to do so, by
acknowledging they exist and having a few tools to aid the user in
adding them if they wish to. Fedora on the other hand completely ignores
the additional repos and it is up to the user to find out about them
themselves. The default installation of ubuntu is as open and GPL as
Fedora is, IMHO (YMMV).
Chris,
Canonical is legally based in Isle of Man, which is among other things,
a tax haven and has more liberal legal constraints compared to US based
organization.
Fedora legally is simply isn't allowed to include or point to patent
encumbered software. Fedora is simply doing what is considered legally
safe. You should read
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
Also Ubuntu, even in their default installation don't have the same
licensing criteria as Fedora does, in part due to the legal constraints
mentioned above.
Rahul
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