I apologize in advance if this is the wrong list to post to. I tried posting/asking through the fedora-join mailing list and got no response at all. I'm doing some research for an article on patent unencumbered Open Source software at: https://schoolforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Patents_and_Open_Source Is anyone currently working on software that fits this category? For example, I've been looking at the source code for xine-lib-1.1.21-pruned.tar.xz. It hasn't been updated in a while and a newer version of xine in source control and Sourceforge has support for webm and some other useful formats. Is anyone looking into adding webm support to the pruned version of xine? I think I have the pruning script pretty much updated for the latest version of the library. Still working through some patches to get the library to compile without the patent encumbered code. (Latest version is more dependent on ffmpeg and related libraries than the previous version was, but it should build without it with some patching.) Is anyone else working on a project along these lines? Also couldn't a library like smpeg be useful for playing certain types of videos if mp3 code was pruned? Just wondering if there are any developers working on these sorts of projects or related ones for Fedora. It would be nice to compare notes and possibly share patches/scripts. If anyone has other resources or projects or documentation they can recommend for the wiki article, suggestions would be very much appreciated. I'm sure they'd be of help to educators concerned with these issues. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
