PYROX wrote:
That is Awsome. I am tired of Having to install all the plugins to let me play my MP3's All we need now is to have GTKPod installed by Default and Fedora Will have alot more users. The MP3 Encoder is open source anyway so why not?
This is a common confusion. Fedora excludes both proprietary software as well as software that is free and open source but has other potential issues such as patents. If I may, let me quote myself from the article:
"There is a difference between proprietary software and potentially patent encumbered software. The former is a philosophical issue while the latter is a legal issue (at least for distributions based in the US). Putting them in the same bucket is not appropriate.
Omega does not install proprietary applications or drivers. What it does install are codecs and multimedia players, all of them are under free and open source software.
To make this distinction clear, rpmfusion has two different repositories - free and non-free. When Omega switches to using rpmfusion (livna will have a migration path before shutting down), the software components installed by default will be from the free repository.
The non-free repository will be available but nothing from there is installed out of the box. This is for two reasons. There is a potential legal issue with bundling proprietary drivers. There is also the technical issue that installing drivers for hardware when it is not required causes breakage..."
So the bottom line is that non-free software affects everybody. Patent encumbrances are region specific.
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