Re: What next?

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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.)

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