fre, 03.06.2005 kl. 22.41 skrev Nils Philippsen: > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:32 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > *snip* > > > If > > > there was a BSD "copyright" licensed implementation out there for mp3, > > > that would change things considerable. BSD "copyright" license is > > > perfectly compatible with non-commercial use "patent" licenses like > > > what Fraunhofer currently allows. > > > > So that somebody would write a BSD gstreamer mp3 plugin, and RH would > > call Fraunhofer and get the goahead for Fedora - it would be OK (but > > they would have to pay fraunhofer for distributing the same plugin with > > RHEL?)? > > But is that what we want? To enable anybody to just take Fedora and > distribute it -- for free or for money -- we don't want to include > software with specific license exemptions for us. Having a patent > license exemption only for the project wouldn't be different in my eyes. I agree, was just testing out the idea. Even if mp3 support would be great for many users. OTOH, don't already RH-artwork, present such a problem for freely distributing? And not everyone lives in the US. Kyrre -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
