RPM Fusion repo?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 7 18:04:16 UTC 2008
Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> I'm quite surprised that there was a "free" WMA plug-in.
>
> Rahul Sundaram:
>> Why? ffmpeg supports pretty much everything, these days.
>
> I was surprised that there was any sort of legal free codec for a
> Microsoft Windows Media Audio format. I'd expect it to be encumbered up
> to the hilt.
ffmpeg is a complete from scratch implementation licensed under GPL and
hence doesn't have copyright issues. It may have patent issues but
software patents are not valid in many places yet. So rpmfusion can hold
these packages in places where patents are not valid but not Fedora itself.
Rahul
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