Fedora's way forward

[Eric S. Raymond]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>:
> IANAL, but I see the one time royalty fee as something that wouldn't
> work for a project like lame or any other MP3 software project.  The fee
> isn't even stated, they just give a range of $50K to $60K USD.  And it's
> listed for PC software applications.  What does that mean?  Use their
> software/library/sdk?  Could the project continue to release MP3
> decoding and encoding code?  Does it mean link in an object file that
> Fraunhoffer provides?  What happens if lame is incorporated in to a
> Fedora-derived distribution that then runs on the iPod?
> 
> Dangerous grounds.

Maybe.  But suppose we actually asked these questions rather than simply
speculating? 
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>