On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 13:59 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Chris Adams wrote: > > >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? > > > > We can't link to the open source version due to patent laws. I guess we > > need to have this conversation every few weeks. > > That was a rhetorical question. Fedora has codecbuddy that points to a > proprietary MP3 plugin. Picking on Flash (where a company is providing > a Fedora-compatible repo for their software) seems wrong when Fedora > includes software that points at other proprietary software. Fedora > can't provide fully-functional Flash, so why can Flash not be like MP3 > and have Fedora point at the Adobe repo? Codecbuddy does not point to a proprietary mp3 plugin, it points to Fluendo's MIT-license plugin. /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E >
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