Royalty free gstreamer plug-in
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Tue Dec 27 07:49:03 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 01:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Pitman <jeff.pitman at gmail.com> writes:
> > (Optimally, FC should just take up the offer and include it in the
> > distro. Wasn't Redhat offering indemnication against ghost-cases of
> > patent claims during the SCO debacle? How about MP3? :D)
>
> IANAL, I don't speak for Red Hat, etc ... but a couple of points seem
> worth making here:
>
> 1. SCO's claims are utterly without merit. (IMHO, yadda yadda, see
> above.) The MP3 patents are real.
>
> 2. SCO's claims cover the basis of the Unix/Linux system, while the
> ability to play MP3's is, um, inessential to getting other things done.
>
> The risk/reward ratio for Red Hat to consider indemnifying users against
> the two issues is completely different. I don't think you'll see Red
> Hat going out on a limb for MP3 players.
I also think that the indemnification only applies to paying customers
(eg RHEL) and not fedora...
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