On Sunday 03 January 2010 00:12:03 Robert E. Martin, VCM Network wrote: > I am somewhat confused. I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a > free license, which included the applications in the repositories. What > am I missing? You are missing the distinction between official Fedora repositories and third party repositories. If you stick to the software present only in the official repositories, then yes, it's all ok, free, no problems with licenses, patents, etc... However, this also means that some otherwise typical desktop functionality will be missing --- no playing of .mp3 files and divx movies, among other things. This extra functionality can be enabled by installing software from third party repositories, such as rpmfusion and livna. But that also means that legality and licensing stuff will become problematic, depending on what exactly you have installed and what are the laws of the country you live in. HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
