The Multimedia Question

[Luis Villa]

On 7/19/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
> > okay - then we're getting somewhere.
> >
> > we have a set of reasonable requirements which help the user AND
> > educates them about whats going on.
> >
> > Who is lead on codec buddy right now?
>
> Bastien Nocera (CC'ed) was working on it. He submitted the codeina
> package for review.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241387
>
> This still leaves my original question of whether we want to be linking
> to a third party repository and making it easy to installing plugins
> from it a click through process unanswered. The consensus on that seems
> to be: Ask Legal first.

I'd strongly suggest having more detail than that in anything you
propose to legal.

* who will choose what that points at?
* where (geography, hardware) will they be hosted, and by who?
* will it be source-available-but-patent-encumbered only? or will it
include no-source options? or some other line?
* what type of education do you plan to do? might it admit (or not)
that there is a belief or public allegation that patents are
infringed? if it does not, how is the whole exercise publicly
justified?

I have no idea what the "right" answers to these questions are, but if
you have at least *some* answer to them the conversation with legal
will be smoother- if nothing else you'll have a place to start
discussion and you'll show you've given some consideration to the
issue.

Luis (DEFINITELY NOT LEGAL)