On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:32 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
*snip*
> If
> there was a BSD "copyright" licensed implementation out there for mp3,
> that would change things considerable. BSD "copyright" license is
> perfectly compatible with non-commercial use "patent" licenses like
> what Fraunhofer currently allows.
So that somebody would write a BSD gstreamer mp3 plugin, and RH would
call Fraunhofer and get the goahead for Fedora - it would be OK (but
they would have to pay fraunhofer for distributing the same plugin with
RHEL?)?
But is that what we want? To enable anybody to just take Fedora and
distribute it -- for free or for money -- we don't want to include
software with specific license exemptions for us. Having a patent
license exemption only for the project wouldn't be different in my eyes.
Nils
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