Dnia 05-04-2006, śro o godzinie 13:05 -0400, Horst von Brand napisał(a): > How do you know it hasn't been tried? In any case, what info is out there > on the matter clearly indicates the people in control of the license will > /never/ agree on an open-source version, so the point is more than moot. It doesn't have to be open-source, it simply has to be legal. Fluendo with gstreamer and Totem are perfectly legal (they paid Thomson the money), the only problem are GPL apps linked to gstreamer (linking at run-time with proprietary things, even via a stack of LGPL modules, violates the GPL). It IS the matter of distribution then. You can make a separate yum repository for perfectly legal MP3 gstreamer plugin (Fluendo will give you a licence for free and it's their responsibility for it to be legal - you're not making Fedora more prosecution-prone), only it has to conflict with Rhythmbox for example. It's still possible to make a program ESR was writing about (popup asks if you want to enable this plugin repository in your yum.repos.d/file, then tells you "in order to play this file you have to install XXX, but this will remove YYY from your system" - yum can tell it to you). The only problem I could see here would be some dependency specific to Fedora that would force the presence of some GPL-licensed and gst-enabled program in my system. This could probably be fixed somehow. Lam
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