Re: multimedia licensing

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• Subject: Re: multimedia licensing
• From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:37:44 +0100
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On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:28 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:
> Fedora has chosen to only include GPL code- anything else is excluded.
> Some of the other distros are more cavalier in this respect.

Fedora Core includes plenty of non-GPL code. xorg-x11 for instance. Do a
"rpm -qi packagename" on a few packages and you'll probably see a few
different "License:" entries.

Things that are excluded are generally because of software patent
issues.

Paul.
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