What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ... packages due to licensing issues"

Mon Sep 22 17:58:22 UTC 2003

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:56:13 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Randall J. Parr (RParr at TemporalArts.COM) said: 
> > * This merger necessitates the removal of certain problematic
> > packages
> > due to licensing issues.
> > 
> > 
> > Does this mean that we will no longer be able to go to Fedora to
> > pickup the MP3, mplayer, etc. packages which have not been included
> > in recent Red Hat releases because of potential licensing problems.
> 
> Correct. 
> 
> While I can't speak for certain, I'm sure there will be third
> party repository maintainers willing to host such software.
> 

I see.. this answers my question from earlier as well. thanks.

Sean.