On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 05:17:02PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 09:17 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > - VLC > > > > > > Free software video player, but with a requirement (or at least can > > > use if available) proprietary / patented / ugly / semi-legal codecs. > > > Currently packaged in RPMFusion for reasons I'm not clear on. > > > > I've looked into this a bit, and discussed with other distro packagers and > > vlc upstream. > > > > VLC is fairly modular, and it's unencumbered bits could be brought to fedora > > and the other stuff live in some -freeworld subpkg in rpmfusion. > > > > Implementing this would be a bit of work, but worth it in my opinion. I > > Well, I'm not so sure. A *lot* of people really don't understand the > patent issue. Like, at all. They don't understand modularity. Like, at > all. To a lot of people, the thing called 'vlc' is a magic black box > that plays every video ever. They "install VLC" and then they play > videos. This is the limit of their understanding. Right. I think my question was too subtle :-( It wasn't about whether VLC could go into Fedora, but if there going to be a ring, with the Fedora name, where basically anything goes including software of insalubrious legality (in the US). And I guess the answer is no. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
