Dan is correct. Linspire (where I used to work) was one of the very few
Linux distros where you could "purchase" a legal DVD player but we did
not ship it as part of the distro because of licensing costs. Linspire
does, however, ship with mp3 decoders which they have a license for and
for which the licensing fees are much cheaper than for DVD. Fedora,
Ubuntu, etc., don't include these decoders because of costs.
Tom
Dan Hanks wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Steven H. McCown wrote:
Okay, that makes sense. So, how does Linux get away with including a
DVD
player and still providing the source? Even if it is built outside
the US,
some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US.
Presumably
they would be under the same rules.
As I understand it, the player is included with the distro, but not
the library used to decode the DVD. You can use the player to watch
unencoded DVDs. Same story for MP3 players. Fedora Core provides the
XMMS media player, but not the library to decode MP3 files.
-- Dan
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