On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 21:29 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > Fedora mustn't have third-party repositories like RPM Fusion enabled by > default. Users must consciously configure them. > Therefore Fedora mustn't download Cisco's binaries by default. It will > have to be something that users must consciously configure. It can ask the user whether he wants to opt-in/out for the plugin installation, removing this mechanism at all won't help the users. > So what's the big deal? If Cisco goes through with this, then there > will be one more free but patent-encumbered implementation. Another > implementation doesn't hurt, but I don't see how it solves any > fundamental problems. It solves a fundamental problem, you have to pay MPEG-LA a license to distribute binaries, so now we have a source that is willing to produce binaries for as many architectures as we need that are licensed by MPEG-LA. So now any user is one click away from being able to access content widely available in the web (which is sadly going through the HTML5 spec). We still have a problem with MP3, but it does solve a fundamental problem. > The only news is that Cisco will hand out blobs > with gratis patent licenses for some time. Establishing a standard > based on the assumption that Cisco will continue doing that > indefinitely seems like a bad idea. Is better than nothing, we can always fall back to what we do now once they stop doing that. -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
