Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Tue Mar 20 16:46:03 UTC 2007


Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>>
>>>
>>> Or, convince Apple they should release a Linux port of itunes...
>>
>> Who would pay for it? The problem isn't that the mp3 codecs are patent
>> encumbered, they're that the people who own the patents charge a per
>> seat licence feee, afaik...
>>
> They could always sell it like other closed source software. You can
> sell commercial software that runs on Linux. You just can not use
> GPLed code in your software. You can link to LGPL libraries...

Which gets around fedora not being able to ship the code how?

:P

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