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Since you're in a position to know

Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:30 UTC (Mon) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
In reply to: Since you're in a position to know by freemars
Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8

>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?

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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.