On 2009-01-26 at 12:36:52 -0500, Bernard Johnson
<bjohnson80...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need a ruling on whether tivodecode can be accepted into Fedora.  It's
> currently submitted to rpmfusion, but Kevin Koffler thought it might be
> able to be accepted into Fedora proper.
> 
> There were three things under consideration:
> * Freeness of QUALCOMM software license - appears to be free software
> * QUALCOMM encryption patents (free?)
> * MPEG program stream decoding (not decompression)

Well, there really is a fourth: this is possibly a DMCA violation. Upon
consultation with counsel, we decided that we're much happier with this
living in RPMFusion as a result.

~spot

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