On Nov 12, 06 20:47:43 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> Since we have made a deal with MS about patents, I would like to ask
> include MS-patented Windows Media Codecs (WMA/WMV) with both openSUSE
> 10.2 and future SUSE versions... (including Enterprise).
We cannot exploit the deal for that.
Even if the deal would allow what you hoped for [*], the deal is not perpetual.
If it terminates (in 5 years, or for some reason earlier) we'd suddenly
infringe MS-patents. Not a good plan, methinks.
[*] It does not allow us to include patented code from MS.
It actually says quite the opposite: MS somewhat agrees
with us, that we don't.
cheers,
Jw.
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