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Re: multimedia licensing

From: Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: multimedia licensing
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:37:44 +0100

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:28 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:
> Fedora has chosen to only include GPL code- anything else is excluded.
> Some of the other distros are more cavalier in this respect.

Fedora Core includes plenty of non-GPL code. xorg-x11 for instance. Do a
"rpm -qi packagename" on a few packages and you'll probably see a few
different "License:" entries.

Things that are excluded are generally because of software patent
issues.

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>

References:
- multimedia licensing
  - From: kwhiskers
- Re: multimedia licensing
  - From: Jon Savage

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