Hi, Le mardi 07 mars 2006 à 14:50 +0000, Edward Hervey a écrit : > > Given the goal of gnome to be a free desktop I think the description > > "take advantage of" is misleading. It allows third party vendors to > > "take advantage of" users. It allows users to be taken advantage of. > > > > > > And its hardly a feature from a software freedom perspective. > > revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7: > > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where > patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to > offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are > available." > > Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?
It's a bit misleading, since depending on the application licence, these 3rd party plugins might or might not legal to use if I'm not mistaken. Christophe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
