On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:06:30AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > 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. Every patent is valid by default. You have to go to court to prove it's a software patent, hence invalid. This has been estimated to cost many tens of thousands of Euros to do, so Codec Buddy is not being misleading. You either have a patent license, or proved in court that it is an invalid patent, other than that, you risk bein in a patent infringement situation, which is something I believe Red Hat definitely doesn't want to fall into. Rui -- This statement is false. Today is Pungenday, the 21st day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
