On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:41 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Cam <camilo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > If support for iTunes is a real requirement, then *all* linux distros > > will be unable to provide something that even comes close. Pester Apple > > for a linux iTunes... > > > > If basic mp3 support is the requirement, then *all* linux distros (with > > some minor tweaks, sure) will do the job. I'm sure J Random would back > > me up on that. > > Hm. I was under the impression that the iTunes format was essentially > a DRM wrapper around MP3 and that stripping it off ore re-applying it > isn't hard. I guess I must have that wrong? Yes, you have that very wrong. First of all with laws like DMCA 'stripping it off' would be illegal. We do not agree with the law, but it is the law at least in the US, but also many EU countries are these days rolling out DMCA like laws. No idea about the rest of the world. It is also not easy at all I think to strip it off even if you are in a place without DMCA, sharpmusique and friends don't actually strip it off, instead they grab the music from the iTunes store before the DRM is applied. As others has mentioned the format in question is not mp3, but AAC. The license fees and terms for this can be found here: http://www.vialicensing.org/products/mpeg4aac/license.terms.html Even if Red Hat coughed up the money to support AAC they would still be unable to legally support Fairplay as Apple has disallowed anyone else from licensing/using it. And as I have mentioned before. As soon as you start bundling a licensed technology like this then you can't have any of your GPL applications use it. My suggestion is that instead of continuing this, by this time repetitive and boring discussion, you instead buy yourself a copy of RHEL Workstation which do come with support for some properietary formats including mp3 afaik. If you are missing some formats then you can complain as paying customer to Red Hat customer support. Christian -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
