[snip] lindows has a fully licensed (means legal) mediaplayer. sun ships with real player (likely soon to be helixplayer) - guess they both paid for that, and both have consulted their experts for legal issues (both us companies, sun is even publically traded). so again, why do they seem to have no problem with that when red hat does? do you really think that for example sun risks to get sued, or lindows for that matter? obviously, they've successfully solved the problems which seem - according to red hat and you - unsolvable.
Neither Lindows not Sun give their offerings away as free download so part of money they receive can go to the licensors and they can properly account for how many copies they have sold and how much the licensor is due. That mechanism obviously can't apply to frely downloadable and distributable software. Maybe you should look to those distributions if Fedora doesn't suit you needs?
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