Codec Buddy misleading.

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 00:35 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > For europe I think it is. It doesn't help for the Red Hat case because
> > as a US company Red Hat is obliged to obey US law.
> 
> Red Hat is also a German company. Those people could release a German
> version that includes it. Say in a German-only repository on german
> servers (and mirrors outside of red hat's control).
> 
> It wouldn't be much different from Livna now. Which is an argument in
> favor of keeping the codecs in such an outside repository as-is.
> 
> However, I am still of the opinion that non-us people shouldn't be misled
> to buy things that they're fully entitled to from free and available
> software, just because of the main location of Fedora's main contributor
> (Red Hat). Which is why I think the Codec Buddy feature suggesting
> non-free software should be removed. Americans illegally installing
> livna rpms is not Red Hat's problem. Europeans mistakingly paying for
> non-free software is an issue for the Fedora Community.

That is utter crock. If you know about the repositories, you probably
already have the packages installed already, or that window would remind
you to install them. If you don't know about them, we can't actually
point you at them.

The bottom line is that people who didn't know how to get playback
software for their videos and music will now know how to, or at least
have a way to.

In fact, most of this software and the way it made it in Fedora was done
in Britain and Spain. So I'm not buying the "martyr from Europe who
shelled out 30 euros" story.

Cheers