How Fedora chose me

[gilpel at altern.org]

RAhul Sundaram wrote:

> On 09/16/2009 05:18 AM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>
>>
>> This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
>> Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in
>> Fedora,
>> the other distro has it included for the next release:
>
> That's a bad example. LiVES is not in any wishlist in Fedora and will
> never be included in Fedora due to its dependency on patent encumbered
> software.  It might be included in a third party repository if someone
> volunteers to do it.

Oops! Right. You previously wrote:

It can't go into Fedora but it will end up in RPM Fusion

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746

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http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-August/msg00442.html

Still it's strange that Debian has accepted it for Sid... with codecs only
for Ogg Theora, of course. They're usually rather strict on patents.

I suppose that, because of issues with FFmpeg and Win32 codecs, Red Hat
would rather not touch Mplayer with a six foot pole but, for the end user,
whether Mplayer is provided by Red Hat or RPMfusion makes no difference.
Davide should be glad :)