On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:37:06 +0100, Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:52, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > Neither can a properitary, vendor-delivered codec. > > People ship Shockwave legally.
There are two issues one is legality and one is policy. If its deemed illegal by Red Hat legal to ship.. its not shipped in Core. If its deemed legal but it is not open source, current Fedora Core policy.. prevents it from shipping.
To be honest that's fine by me - I don't mind downloading from a vendors site. Sure it would be nice if Fedora came with absolutely everything I wanted - but realistically it never will, even for software that does meet policy, and downloading from other sources is the reallity. And that's true with any desktop OS.
