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.
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