On 17/10/2007, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > spec-files-extra currently contains a number of media modules that are > "ugly" in the sense of the GStreamer "ugly" plugins. These are modules > that contain code that contains IP, reverse-engineered code, requires > license in order to use and/or distribute, etc.
I think "encumbered" or "non-free" would be a better description to use; non-free is what Debian, Ubuntu, et al. use today. Ugly has a negative connotation about the software in question. The software in question may be absolutely wonderful and is only weighed down by idiotic software patents, etc. However, this is a semantic nit-pick at best. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
