Rahul Sundaram wrote: > * When the user clicks a mp3 file, instead of missing codec errors > there will be a popup where the user can either choose to learn about > Free (in both ways) alternatives or click to install the free codec > supplied by Fluendo (Fleundo has the necessary patent licenses so this > is a legal in US) which is under a MIT X11 license or cancel the whole > thing. The user experience here is very similar to what happens when > you visit a website which needs Flash plugin the first time in Firefox > except that in addition we would explain to them that there are better > Free alternatives and the reason why we don't provide these codecs by > default in Fedora. This way we get to keep Fedora entirely Free and open > source software while solving the usability issue of not being able to > play some of the content to a good extend (wont be very helpful folks > who dont network access so it is not 100% solved yet). > > * For the other paid as well as proprietary codecs, the user would be > directed to a Fedora Project page where they can again learn about > better Free alternatives. In the page we would also list Fluendo as a > vendor providing licensed and paid proprietary codecs. If there are > vendors who are involved we can very well list them. So there is a level > playing field here. > > Comments? Thank you for the clarification. The only problem I see, if I understand you, is that the mp3 codec is sole-sourced to Fluendo. I understand that Fluendo is the only vendor to providing a legal alternative today, but we should have the ability to allow multiple vendors at that step. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
