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This is the wrong approach...This is the wrong approach...Posted Nov 6, 2007 15:51 UTC (Tue) by jfj (guest, #37917)In reply to: This is the wrong approach... by skvidal Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8
Right! Also, there is the misinformation in this article that the *user* is illegal and may go to jail or something. Illegal (according to US courts) is the one who is selling mp3 encoders in the US (and parts of the world) without having paid patent fees. Patent problems are cofused with copyright infrigment. I do not believe that linking to ffmpeg is a patent violation like linking to pirated content is copyright infigment. And probably fedora's lawyers could argue that they are not even selling mp3 encoders, simply distributing free software and selling support. Someone can get the impression that Fedora is either pushed in the corner with the recent Novell deals, or in it for some kind of profit.
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This is the wrong approach... Posted Nov 6, 2007 16:00 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] It has nothing to do with selling anything. It only has to do with distribution. Also the user is not in danger of any kind but if fedora distributed anything covered under those patents then red hat could get sued into oblivion and then the user would lose his/her vendor of the fedora linux distribution. -sv
This is the wrong approach... Posted Nov 7, 2007 22:27 UTC (Wed) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link] This however, is not what the warning text printed by CodecBuddy implies. It sounds as if the *user* needed a patent license. This is simply not true. The problems are strictly Fedora's, no end user is being harmed nor saved from any kind of harm by being deprived of codec support.
This is the wrong approach... Posted Nov 10, 2007 12:31 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Are you sure about that? From Joe Shaw's blog:
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