Hi
Could you expand a bit on what you mean by "the Free software
situation" ?
The inability of distributions who want to support only open source
software to distribute mp3 codecs
Fluendo does not sell a proprietary plugin for mp3 playback. Fluendo
gives away both MIT-licensed source code, as well as binaries that come
with a patent license, built from this source code.
Yes, you get a gratis codec but its still patent encumbered in many
regions. People who are willing to accept and use a binary codec an use
it. I am not belittling your work. Having a codec that works across the
entire set of applications that use gstreamer is fabulous but it doesnt
mean that Fedora can ship it unless they accept to ship a binary codec
which is not what Fedora is all about. Real Player was available
previously if the project wanted to do that.
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