Re: Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

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On 07-05-2011 17:05, Loui Chang wrote:
> Or the distro could purchase or otherwise aquire licenses to all claimed
> patents...  ha...  ha...
> 
> 

... and then you fall out of bed and wake up. Either that or someone
with very very very deep pockets needs to finance that.

I agree that all this software patent stuff is getting ridiculous but
it's what we have now. As far as I know most if not all distros (and
upstream) are leaving the choice of using patented stuff up to the end user.

-- 
Mauro Santos


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