Hi, On 3/7/06, Christophe Fergeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It will only be illegal to ship those applications *together* with those plugins. But if you download those plugins afterwards, no issues. GStreamer was developed with those issues in mind. Edward > > Christophe > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Edward Hervey Junior developer / Fluendo S.L. http://www.pitivi.org/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
