Paul Osunero wrote: > You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat hasn't tried to pay royalty > for media codecs. I'm pretty sure they have enough money for it... They could, for rhel, but that goes against Fedora's principles/objectives. > Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with > Linux/GNU software? One more: redistributability. One of Fedora's objectives is to be fully redistributable (ie, so folks can spin their own Fedora-based distros). Paid-for codecs are (generally) distributable only by the party that bought/paid-for them. -- Rex
