On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If it only costs a one-time payment of $50-60K to license > mp3 decoding, why isn't Redhat doing it? If it's strictly > to appease the GPL then couldn't they ship some type of "add-on" > pack that included this feature (and maybe the DVD encoding > as well.) This would be similar to the MS markets the Plus > Pack and would still allow Redhat to say the OS is shipped > GPL compliant. >
No, I think you're missing the point. The one-time fee would allow Red Hat (two words!) to distribute the codec, yes, but it couldn't be redistributed by others. The GPL requires that the software be completely *re*-distributable. Hope this helps, Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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