On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:37 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > hi > I agree with this but at the same time I disagree. I completely agree > that installing codecs should be easier. On the other hand, I'm > sympothetic to fedora's awkward position. If they made installing > these codecs easier or installed them by default, even though the > software to play them is open source, they could find themselves on > the bad end of an riaa or mpaa lawsuit. Nope. Neither of those entities own codec patents. And no its not "impossible" to ship those codes in a legal way. If fedora/red hat would buy patent licenses they can legally distribute those codes *but* those licenses would not apply to remixes so anyone else basing his/her distro on fedora would have to either remove them or get a patent license. MP3 will expire soon anyway. So we'd only need AAC/H264 to be able to handle most videos out there. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
