On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:04 -0400, LM wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >Please search the list archives before proposing such a thing. > > I apologize if I've offended you, but I have every intention of > continuing with the project. I simply asked what the status of a > patent unencumbered version of libxine was on Fedora on behalf of an > educational project I'm working with. The educational project is not > Fedora based. It's for educators everywhere using a variety of > systems (Linux, Mac, Windows). I think it's an admirable goal to > encourage Open Source in education. However, if one can't legally > create videos or play them back without running into legal issues, how > does one encourage schools to use Open Source and non-proprietary > formats? Kevin was addressing xine specifically. There are plenty of other playback libraries/frameworks. Gstreamer is quite widely used these days, and is very modular. Gstreamer plugins for unencumbered formats are shipped in the main Fedora repositories, and gstreamer-based players like Totem will play such formats fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
