Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 07:09:50PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > But it leads to the strange situation that we can recommend to install
> > ffmpeg if it is bundled with some proprietary software, but cannot do so
> > if it is part of a free software repository.
> Considering that FFmpeg is LGPL-licensed, I think recommending proprietary 
> software that uses FFmpeg exposes us to significant legal risk, because, as 
> far as I can tell, the LGPL is incompatible with proprietary patent 
> licenses. So I do not see how that proprietary software can be complying at 
> the same time with the LGPL and the patent license.

Let's please not speculate what may or may not expose us to risk.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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