Since you're in a position to know [LWN.net]

Since you're in a position to know

Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:17 UTC (Mon) by freemars (subscriber, #4235)
In reply to: This is the wrong approach... by skvidal
Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8

Seth Vidal
Fedora Project Board Member

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?

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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
to be squeaky clean in the eyes of the law
and
to run free-as-in-Libre software.