List of rejected packages

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 00:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
<snip>

"DVD playback 

      * DVD playback (of CSS encrypted DVDs) may be a violation of the
        [WWW]US DMCA, because it may be considered circumventing a
        copyright protection mechanism. Additionally, MPEG2 is a
        patented codec, so even DVDs without encryption cannot be
        played. 
        
        Fedora Suggests: Using patent-free formats such as Ogg Theora is
        highly recommended. 
"

Arf, arf, arf. Would something like this "Sorry, you can't play your
audio CDs, please consider downloading them from a dodgy Korean website
as Ogg Vorbis files instead" make sense to you?

In this case, I'd say:
Fedora Suggests: "Donate money to the EFF, and lobby your local
political leaders to abolish software patents", or even removing the
suggestion.

-- 
Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>