What next?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

fre, 03.06.2005 kl. 22.41 skrev Nils Philippsen:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:32 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > *snip*
> > >  If
> > > there was a BSD "copyright" licensed implementation out there for mp3,
> > > that would change things considerable. BSD "copyright" license is
> > > perfectly compatible with non-commercial use "patent" licenses like
> > > what Fraunhofer currently allows.
> > 
> > So that somebody would write a BSD gstreamer mp3 plugin, and RH would
> > call Fraunhofer and get the goahead for Fedora - it would be OK (but
> > they would have to pay fraunhofer for distributing the same plugin with
> > RHEL?)?
> 
> But is that what we want? To enable anybody to just take Fedora and
> distribute it -- for free or for money -- we don't want to include
> software with specific license exemptions for us. Having a patent
> license exemption only for the project wouldn't be different in my eyes.

I agree, was just testing out the idea. Even if mp3 support would be
great for many users.

OTOH, don't already RH-artwork, present such a problem for freely
distributing?

And not everyone lives in the US.

Kyrre