gdesklets included?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 4 21:00:09 UTC 2007


Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 16:39:50 Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>>> 2) I also see in the Release Notes that native mp3 support will be
>>> included.  Will that also be provided?
>> No.
> 
> This probably isn't a fair question since I haven't done my research, but is it for the same reason as before.  I found this tidbit: "Fedora won't ship MP3-capable software because the Fraunhofer
> Institute's patent license terms are not compatible with the GPL."
> 
> However, now that Fluendo is providing mp3 decoding for free, is this still the case?

Yes. It is.  See http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php

Rahul




More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list