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This is the wrong approach...This is the wrong approach...Posted Nov 4, 2007 20:15 UTC (Sun) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)In reply to: This is the wrong approach... by pinky0x51 Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8
>Beside the problem of pushing non-free software you can read in the >interview that they want to integrate the "webshop-feature" even more >tightly into Fedora. So Fedora will come with active advertisement to >purchase non-free software from a commercial company. I don't like >commercial advertising in my software/operating-system and especially i >don't like advertising for commercial non-free software. Fluendo wants to do that. I can assure you that Fedora does not. For a better depiction of the fedora project board's opinion on codec buddy see this article: http://www.linux.com/feature/120703 Seth Vidal Fedora Project Board Member
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Since you're in a position to know Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:17 UTC (Mon) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link]
Seth Vidal So what does that EULA say? May the end user pay Fluendo their 30 pieces of silver... and use an open source implementation to play MPEG files?
Since you're in a position to know Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:30 UTC (Mon) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] >So what does that EULA say? May the end user pay Fluendo their 30 pieces of >silver... and use an open source implementation to play MPEG files? the user can use whatever the user wants. codeina/codec buddy is a pretty simple implementation. If gstreamer hits a codec it can't handle it'll popup a box for you. The box is just a view to an xml file that points out some possible codecs which are available which can solve this problem. It could, optionally, point to a place to install a package from another repo or any other set of things. Since fluendo worked on the code it points to their site by default. Fedora doesn't have a place to legally point users to for accessing mp3s other than fluendo. Their free-as-in-beer mp3 codec allows users to play/access mp3s on their system. That's it. Does that answer your question?
Since you're in a position to know Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:49 UTC (Mon) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link] Does that answer your question? It does, thank you.
In that case Codec Buddy could be a plus for those who want their computers
This is the wrong approach... Posted Nov 5, 2007 13:25 UTC (Mon) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link] > Fluendo wants to do that. I can assure you that Fedora does not. Then why, pray tell, is Fedora becoming Fluendo's minion and helping their business model based on non-free software?
This is the wrong approach... Posted Nov 5, 2007 13:44 UTC (Mon) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] >Then why, pray tell, is Fedora becoming Fluendo's minion and helping their >business model based on non-free software? The feature of codeina is useful. Being able to prompt people about codecs they need and explaining to them what the story is with codecs is a good idea. Selling the closed-source codecs is, in my personal opinion, a bad idea. However, the problem is this - we have a lot of people who want to use linux who find not having codecs available easily (even for-pay ones) a real roadblock. So the question becomes: Do we keep users off our platform b/c we don't legally have codecs they need or do we tell them where to get the codecs legally and keep them on the platform, while at the same time telling them about the problems with software patents and the issues we face dealing with these codecs. Fedora opted for the latter, for now. -sv
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