multimedia licensing

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon Apr 18 09:50:43 UTC 2005


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, kwhiskers wrote:

> 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?

There is the potential for that yes.

> On 4/17/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at 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 <http://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
>

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