On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:11:19PM -0300, salsaman wrote: > Please answer the question. I have been personally assured by > representatives of the mplayer developers that the ffmpeg code contains *no > patented code*. I spent over two years fighting to convince the debian > developers that this was true, until they finally accepted it. The general Fedora package maintainers aren't in a position to decide on legal question, so having this discussion here won't come to any useful conclusion. Only Fedora legal have the authority to decide on legal questions & so they are the people you have to ask about this, not Fedora packagers. > I am very tired of this discussion, and I am not prepared to go through it > all again with the fedora legal dept. > > Please just point me to just one registered patent that the core of ffmpeg > is known to violate. > Otherwise you are just spreading FUD. I'm not spreading FUD, merely directing you to people who actually have the authority to speak for Fedora on legal questions like this. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
