On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 08:12 +0000, James bond wrote: > (This is a sad noob user rant, please bear me. And sorry in advance > for 'whataboutism'.) > > IANAL but this is a horrible idea. > > It's like parents turning off the internet entirely WiFi because the > kid can't be able to watch 'bad' videos. > Technically, it solves parents' problems but hampers the kid's study > in many ways. > Are we going over the board by touching all the way to down to Mesa? It's pretty clearly delineated what's allowed and not allowed in Fedora's packaging/licensing guidelines. And Fedora is not obligated to package every single thing. > I mean, what's next? > - Remove all torrent software, because it can be used to download... > Juridiction=IANAL, Possibility > - Use LibreKernel because... Juridiction = IANAL, Possibility > - ... Torrenting is not illegal. Torrenting copyrighting material is. And Fedora has an exception for binary firmware blobs. > This is like triggering the shotgun into your own house. What > happens? Users/member of the house shift/leaves the house. I started > with F34 and had to already go to heck to achieve a proper video > acceleration. And now I hear about this. Truly disappointing and > saddening. Reminds me of a possible youtube comment: > > Redhat: How hard do you want to make your users suffer? > Fedora: yes This issue has been blown out of proportion. Most people will not be affected, AMD users can still use other codecs, and people are working on workarounds.
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