About "How do I make XMMS play MP3s?" from a new comer

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:31, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> C. Linus Hicks kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 29. 
> lokakuuta 2004 18:47):
> > I just noticed on the http://rpm.livna.org page this message:
> >
> > "The merger between Fedora.us and Red Hat necessitated the
> > removal of certain problematic packages (including but not
> > limited to mplayer, xine, videolan-client and xmms-mp3) due to
> > licensing issues or US software patent."
> 
> Did you notice the next paragraph of text on the same site? The 
> one that starts: "The open community of volunteers gathered in 
> rpm.livna.org will continue to maintain those packages..."

Yeah, so I'm curious how they plan to resolve the obvious conflict
between those two statements. The first statement says "necessitated the
removal..." and if that's true, how do you then make available things
that have been removed from their site? Are they planning on starting a
new repository?

However, if you look in their repository, xmms-mp3 is still there, so
the first statement seems to be a lie.

-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>