are you (fedora devels) using fluendo codecs?

[Richi Plana]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 16:22 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:12:02 -0700
> Richi Plana <myfedora at richip.dhs.org> wrote:
> 
> > Valent, you've been keeping tabs on developments with this issue.
> > Could you summarize what suggestions have been made to solve it and
> > who made these suggestions? Just the positive feedback, if you please.
> 
> Fluendo could use a non-closed source compiler (I suggest gcc) so that
> the binaries could be made to not need execmem.

Hmm ... I remember reading somewhere that Fluendo was looking into this.
If so, ball's in their court. In fact ... yes, there's a link on the
Fedora bugzilla pointing to Fluendo's bug report. Last Fluendo reply was
from Christian on 06/07/07 16:35:08. If they could get back a timeframe,
then Fedora could decide whether a near-term, temporary fix should be
implemented:

> Fedora could modify the policy to allow for execmem from these files
> (not sure what the side effects of that are, nor how far reaching this
> would be given that the codecs are used in gstreamer).

It should be noted that for Fedora advocacy's or PR sake, I've already
read one article that slams Fedora for (among other things) a faulty
Codec Buddy. Again, it's a matter of perception.

Constructive criticisms only, please.
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Richi Plana