On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:52, Don Bedsole wrote: > Hi, > Would it be possible to provide an alternate version of KDE for areas > where patents apply? For example, I believe KDE and some of its > programs (Amarok, for example), have libmad (mp3 support) as a > dependency. > > I guess what I'm asking for is a version which would only include > patent free formats (Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc).
If you don't encode/decode any mp3 files, then you're legally safe. If that isn't good enough, however, you can easily remove the relevant dependency in /usr/ports/audio/arts/Makefile and rebuild. -- David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
