On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > 2010/10/14 Stefan Parviainen <[email protected]>: > > > The main issue nowadays is probably patents. Apparently support for some > > formats can not be included without breaking some patents. Does anyone > > on this list have an idea which formats are problematic from the point > > of view of the Fedora project? Would removing support for these formats > > make it possible to include a stripped version of mplayer in the Fedora > > repositories? > > Removal of "patented" codecs from mplayer renders it almost completely > useless. I'd rather to stay with rpmfusion package.
Sure, "almost". I'd rather view free/unencumbered formats using software from the main repos. If you need support for other formats (I don't*) then you should use the rpmfusion version. But the question was not what "[you]'d rather" do, but what obstacles prevent mplayer from being included in Fedora proper. *assuming Ogg Vorbis/Theora are considered patent-free. -- Stefan Parviainen _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
