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