>> 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. And H.265, plus probably some of the Dobly ones for surround sound.... it's ongoing. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
