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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