On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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. I wrote "most" not "all" ;) -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
