>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Also, it seems supporting popular IP multimedia codecs would likely > make free software more popular rather than less. Since the > license must be renewed each year, such an arrangement could be > terminated in the future if people found the arrangement didn't > work well. "Those who would give up freedom to purchase a little temporary popularity deserve neither." I think that Sriram's right about talking to the distributions. You'll find that most (Fedora, etc) have already committed to not ship patent-encumbered codecs regardless of whether a license is available, though. See, for example, the lack of success ESR had with suggesting that Fedora license an MP3 decoder: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-March/msg01286.html - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://blog.printf.net/> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
