The Multimedia Question

[Rahul Sundaram]

Luis Villa wrote:

> 
> 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?

Third party repository containing only Free but patent encumbered 
software hosted outside of US in a region not affected by software 
patents and in resources provided external to Red Hat. The same website 
might have other repositories but those won't be enabled by default or 
accessed directly by us. The end user functionality looks something like 
this:

* You click on content encoded in a format that we don't support by default

* We use the hook in gstreamer to call a small GTK application that says:

This content is in a restricted patent encumbered format that Fedora 
Project does not provide support by default. If you are in a region that 
enforces software patents (such as U.S) you can download or buy licensed 
codecs. Others users can install the free plugin. What would you like to do?

A) Learn about Free and better quality alternatives -  lead to a web 
page that explains all about Free formats such as Ogg.

B) Download or buy licensed Codecs -> leads to a different section in 
the same page as A) that points to the Fluendo web shop.

C) Install plugin support - Downloads the appropriate plugin package 
from the third party repository directly. If there is no net access fail 
gracefully after informing the user.

Does this sound sane and answer all the questions necessary for legal?

Rahul