List of rejected packages
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 19:34:55 UTC 2005
Bastien Nocera wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
You have a point and its a wiki. go ahead and edit it.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing
regards
Rahul
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