Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/28/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.
>
Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (http://www.real.com/linux)
as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and
aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer? It
isn't quite itunes, but at least they are trying to make something
usable for linux.
I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.
And the other choices that provide a free, legal, rpm-packaged player
that you can download for linux would be?
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Les Mikesell
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