<div dir="ltr">As far as I know, Livna policy is to only include open source software. It is a repo for patent-problematic, but yet open source software. So MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, H.264, Xvid, MPlayer etc stuff -- that all has open source implementations -- are available on Livna, and this is enough for playing virtually all multimedia content you can get.<br>
<br>Also, the nVidia and ATI drivers at Livna are the open source ones -- not the original, more feature rich, more powerful, 3D capable, binary ones.<br>I believe there is also a license problem when you download the original binary drivers, repackage them and put them someplace else for downloading. They are not freely distributable, I think. So if you repackage these binary drivers you are violating their licence for distribution.<br>
<br>What I think Livna (or other repo) could do is what the JPackage project does for a long time: provide nosrc.rpm packages.<br>These are only the source RPM without the license-problematic stuff. From the user perspective, he'll have to download the nosrc.rpm file plus the ZIP file from ATI/nVidia web site and issue one simple rpmbuild command to get the installable RPM.<br>
<br>Altought I understand the political and religious guidelines of the Fedora project, I still believe this is a huge problem that should be discussed and fixed somehow. So in this point, I don't agree with <span>Paul Stauffer</span> in his previous e-mail.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Avi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/29 Shambo Bose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shambo.linux@gmail.com">shambo.linux@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/29 Juan M. Rodriguez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nushio@gmail.com" target="_blank">nushio@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2008/9/29 Shambo Bose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shambo.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank">shambo.linux@gmail.com</a>></span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">hello <br><div><div></div><div><br>We can always create a secondary non free repository which will contain all the free drivers and packages[ which is not open source] <br>and the mp3 part is ok... they are playing mp3 in that way.<br>
<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br>Shambo Bose<br><br></div></div></div>
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<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>"We can always create a secondary non free repository"<br><br></div>We already have one, its called Livna[1], they provide packages for both ATI and Nvidia cards that are packaged for Fedora, which would mean no conflicts with existing drivers. They are sometimes hours-to-days behind kernel updates (Specifically security kernel updates) which leaves users with dependency conflicts (Either update the kernel and lose the drivers, or stay insecure for some time)<br>
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<br></blockquote></div></div>Hello<br><br>The livna graphics drivers does not support 3D hardware Acceleration . Is livna a official fedora repository?<br><br>regards,<br>Shambo Bose<br></div>
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