Once upon a time, Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 10:19 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > The free Flash players, as distributed in Fedora, will _always_ be > > broken, as they can't include MP3 for audio (at least until about 2017). > > If it allowable for codecbuddy to point to a gratis MP3 codec, why is it > > not allowable for something to point to a gratis Flash player, > > especially when it is the "standard" and the company behind it actually > > sets up a repo for use with Fedora (as opposed to the MP3 situation)? > > The source code is available for the mp3 gstreamer plugin. The only > reason we can't include it in Fedora is due to US patent law. > Proprietary flash on the other hand is closed-sourced. Does codecbuddy point to the open source MP3 plugin or a proprietary MP3 plugin? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
