Re: multimedia licensing

[kwhiskers <kwhiskers gmail com>]

So are you guys saying that this new/proposed (?) patent legislation in
Europa will force other distros to remove vital components from the
standard distibutions as well?

On 4/17/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers gmail com> wrote:

I have a question:

Many times I have heard that Fedora cannot be a fully functioning operating system because of licensing constraints.

My question is:

Why are other distributions not plagued by these same constraints? They're all Linux.

I have tried SuSE, Mandrake (now Mandrivel - such an unfortunate christening), Knoppix, and some minor distros.

Fully functional in every respect that GPL code supports. What exactly
is missing
that makes Fedora non-functional?
Java, Flash, MP3, DVD support are not shipped due to license/legal
concerns but all
are *readily* available from a variety of easily accessable locations
e.g. livna.org.
>  Why are other distributions not plagued by these same constraints? They're
> all Linux.
Fedora has chosen to only include GPL code- anything else is excluded.
Some of the other distros are more cavalier in this respect.

--
Bests,
Jon

Every Linux distribution that ships only open source software and is
based on regions where software patents are enforced will be affected.

regards
Rahul