What next?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Jun 3 21:33:53 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:32:20PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 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?)?

People sell Fedora and it is also free software, which means no restrictions.
Anyone who wants is free to try and negotiate with the MP3 license holders to
get a license one off for their project or for GPL use. I believe people have
tried.




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