I understand. On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 19:19 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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
