It becomes more complex than that, if Sun were to take a patent license on such GPL'd (VLC) code and then sell the product the next person would not be able to pass along those GPL "freedoms" which would be in violation of the GPL....
Anyway we have Fluendo working on codecs for Gstreamer + the DVD Player: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-dvd-player/ http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/ On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Anon Y Mous <system5unix at yahoo.com> wrote: > I got an idea to revive this thread. > > How about Sun gives away the OpenSolaris operating system for free but > sells people a custom rebuild of VLC media player done by kronox that plays > everything just like Microsoft Windows Media Player does, and of course it > would come with all the licensed codecs and everything would just work. > > I would definitely pay for it. I think everyone else would pay for it too. > > They could even come up with a snappy name like: > > "the Java ONE Java Desktop Enterprise JAVA Media player" > > and of course it would not actually be written in Java. > > What do you guys think? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090711/973d7165/attachment.html>
