Scott van Looy wrote:
Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:
> Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>>
>>>
>>> Or, convince Apple they should release a Linux port of itunes...
>>
>> Who would pay for it? The problem isn't that the mp3 codecs are patent
>> encumbered, they're that the people who own the patents charge a per
>> seat licence feee, afaik...
>>
> They could always sell it like other closed source software. You can
> sell commercial software that runs on Linux. You just can not use
> GPLed code in your software. You can link to LGPL libraries...
Which gets around fedora not being able to ship the code how?
Why would it have to be shipped with Fedora? Not all software you
use needs to be shipped with the distribution.
Mikkel
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