On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:11:19PM -0300, salsaman wrote:
Please answer the question. I have been personally assured by
representatives of the mplayer developers that the ffmpeg code contains *no
patented code*. I spent over two years fighting to convince the debian
developers that this was true, until they finally accepted it.
The general Fedora package maintainers aren't in a position to decide
on legal question, so having this discussion here won't come to any
useful conclusion. Only Fedora legal have the authority to decide on
legal questions & so they are the people you have to ask about this,
not Fedora packagers.
I am very tired of this discussion, and I am not prepared to go
through it
all again with the fedora legal dept.
Please just point me to just one registered patent that the core of ffmpeg
is known to violate.
Otherwise you are just spreading FUD.
I'm not spreading FUD, merely directing you to people who actually have the
authority to speak for Fedora on legal questions like this.
Daniel
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