On 12/23/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Real Player was available > previously if the project wanted to do that. RealPlayer was a bit different... there was no source code available for real's codecs. and on top of that realplayer didnt really work inside the framework of other applications. It wasn't so much a "codec" as a seperate highly redudant and poorly integrated application. Who needs that crap. The gst plugin on the other hand has appropriately licensed source code, source code that Fedora can distribute and source code that can be redistributed by downstream users of Fedora. That's a huge difference from realplayer. The MIT copyright license has very different implications concerned re-distribution than the GPL licensed codebases we have seen before. The MIT license doesn't self-terminate re-distribution of the sourcecode when patent restrictions on binaries become invovled. The situation is definitely worth taking a closer look at. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
