On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 03:24 +0100, Mark wrote: > Today is my first day in Fedora 8 (like probably a lot of people) and > when i want to play a movie i get codec buddy which is absolutely > fine! But now the misleading part comes. I live in Europe. for me it's > not illegal to install the "gstreamer-bad-plugins" or just packages > that get me mpeg/xvid/divx/aac/any_codec support and yet codec buddy > gives me only payed options. I didn't start using fedora a few years > ago to start paying for codecs! > > Now my idea to get this better is to make codec buddy location > specific. When you install fedora you select the country where you > live. If codec buddy uses that information than it can point me to the > right direction where i can get my codecs for free. I ujnderstand that > Fedora can't include those codecs in there own repositories but > wouldn't it be possible to make a community driven (codec) repository > that contains all the packages that are not allowed in the USA but are > in EU (probably everywhere EXCEPT the USA). Fedora at least has to > notify the users that paying isn't needed if you don't live in the > USA!! IANAL, but the European situation is still subject to re-interpretation in the future, and it's certainly far more fine-grained than US v.s EU. in any case. I think the language could do with being clear, however there's only so much that can be explained in dialog box real estate. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
