> Novell is a business, yes. > Debian is not a business: yes. > Redhat is a business: yes
I consider all these irrelevant. Novell and Redhat shouldn't be compared with Debian but rather with Canonical/Progeny. Debian could be compared with SuSE Linux OSS or Fedora. Some are distributions, other are businesses. I don't see anything separating the situation of Debian and Canonical/Progeny from the situation of SuSE Linux OSS and Novell (or Fedora and Redhat). Thus, I consider these facts irrelevant. > Debian has MP3: irrelevant > Fedora doesn't have MP3: irrelevant. The only reason I consider this slightly relevant is that Debian people tend to be *extremely* careful in not violating the law. Some would say paranoid. They even have a list devoted explicitly to this (and, as you can see in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/threads.html , it has quite a bit of traffic; in this month it has distributed more than half as many messages as this list!). Yet they haven't found any reasons to remove the MP3 decoders from their distribution. > Alejandro, what you are saying is against common understanding of > MP3 licensing, can you please find some supporting documents or > discussion elsewhere, and not just a link to the large number of > patents controlled by Thomson. Until Alejandro has done that, move > along, there is nothing to see here...... Well, for the discussion you could browse their archives. A good starting point, while not the only one, could be: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00226.html I would consider the “common understanding” rather subjective. I would, instead, be inclined to think that MP3 decoders should be included unless anyone can find a patent that can apply to a decoder. Alejo. http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/ ---=( Comunidad de Usuarios de Software Libre en Colombia )=--- ---=( http://bachue.com/colibri )=--=( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )=--- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
