On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:00:02PM -0700, Denis Leroy wrote: > Has a high-ranked RedHat official ever tried calling Fraunhofer in Germany > to negociate something ? Fraunhofer has always said they would not enfore > the MP3 patents onto open-source and free projects. Maybe RHEL wouldn't > qualify, but Fedora should be fine... If RHEL doesn't qualify, then that would be an additional restriction forbidden by the GPL. Some-other-licensed MP3 player might get by with this, though. (However, it's not really in the spirit of Free / open source software.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list