On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Orvar Korvar wrote: >> Solaris does not have codecs. SUN didnt pay the license costs, I believe. > > Remember, OpenSolaris is designed to be freely redistributable by anyone, > so including them in OpenSolaris requires paying for a world-wide, > unlimited copy, freely sublicensable license, or basically getting > permission to be the last license the patent holders ever can sell, > because no one else would need to buy after that. ? One can only imagine > how many billions of dollars they could ask in exchange for giving up > all future license sales. > > -- > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ? ? ? ? Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Also have in mind that VLC isn't in any OpenSolaris official repository. Only in community maintained, like Blastwave. Luis de Bethencourt
