removed mp3 support in media players in fedora core 1

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:07, Brian Huffman wrote:
> I have a more interesting question....Since Fedora is now a community supported
> project and RedHat is only "sponsoring" it, might that relieve RedHat of legal
> consequences of the patent issues?  Could we now include mp3 support?

No, since they are distributing it. Better to use an unencumbered audio
scheme like ogg. Sometimes open source is about doing the right thing,
not the easy thing. (Maybe more often than "sometimes," even.)

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE