"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Which SUSE? The paid one? No problem, they can pay for the codecs. > > Which, I'm suggesting, Red Hat could do also. Which would be useless to Fedora, and would also be useless to anyone downstream (i.e. wanting to re-distribute Fedora). Just because Red Hat obtain a license to exercise the technology covered by the patent doesn't grant anyone downstream of them a license. If you *can* get Fraunhofer to grant a patent license that applies to everyone downstream of the party to whom the license is granted, for a price that party is able to pay, then you've effectively negated the monopoly of that particular patent. I would welcome such a scenario, but I think it has "a snowball's chance in a supernova" of occurring, to quote some recently-seen hyperbole. -- \ "The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but | `\ because of those who look at it without doing anything." -- | _o__) Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
