On 9/29/22 09:37, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29 2022 at 08:12:10 AM -0000, James bond > <prabesh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I mean, what's next? >> - Remove all torrent software, because it can be used to download... >> Juridiction=IANAL, Possibility >> - Use LibreKernel because... Juridiction = IANAL, Possibility >> - ... > > The difference is Fedora Legal is OK with torrent software and Linux > firmware, but not OK with unapproved multimedia codecs. There's no > point in trying to debate this on a public mailing list as the lawyers > who make these decisions don't read the list. > > I'm confident that Fedora Legal wants to allow as much as possible > because they have worked with us on this in the past, which is why > today Fedora is able to play MP3, AAC, and even H.264 (via OpenH264) > when all three of these technologies were totally banned just a few > years ago. In Fedora 38, we'll have a new service, > fedora-autofirstboot, that installs OpenH264 for you with no user > interaction, so soon users will be able to play most MP4s > out-of-the-box with zero manual intervention required to make it work. > (This is already ready, just not enabled yet in F37.) I expect our > multimedia situation to improve even more in the future because I > suspect there is a little more we can do here. But when Fedora Legal > says we cannot do something, they really mean it and we have to respect > that.
Could OpenH264 be hooked up to hardware acceleration somehow? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
