On 3/8/06, Ronald S. Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:50:17 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > > However, not everyone in the GNOME community necessarily agrees with > > this. I got *a lot* of requests to add an mp3 recording profile to > > gnome-media. Historically, I've always refuted these requests because I > > agree that GNOME should not be endorsing them. > > You're confusing user choice with accepting and confirming validity of > corporate patent portofolios. > > We'd give users choice by adding a MP3 profile by default and showing it > when lame is installed. We'd accept and confirm validity of corporate > patent portfolios by buying an mp3 patent license and shipping a > restricted binary as part of the GNOME desktop.
Which is why those plugins are not, and will never be, shipped as part of the GNOME desktop. Edward > > Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > 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
