On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:53, Niels Weber wrote: > Am Sa, den 25.10.2003 schrieb Erik Englund um 01:10: > > On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:18, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > MP3 issue is not about to change until the patent expires, which > > > if calculations are correct is 17 years after it was filed. > > > > > what about a non us release? software patents isn't a problem everywhere > > in the world... :) > This is why you get the mp3 rpms easily from non US servers. And this is > why Mandrake (french) and SuSE (german) can distribute p3 capable stuff. > (it being not GPL compatible left aside) exactly, so why don't fedora have an European release on a European server that US people are not aloud to download? I mean, how many US corporations aren't breaking US human right laws in third world countries that is not a crime in that countries, no one can do anything about that, so therefore it should be no problem with a special non us version of fedora, or?