This is the wrong approach... [LWN.net]

This is the wrong approach...

Posted Nov 8, 2007 9:39 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: This is the wrong approach... by skvidal
Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8

That can't be done. There's no foolproof way of knowing where the user is located, though I
guess the country that the user *claimed* to be from earlier in the installation-process would
be a reasonable first guess.

My suggestion would be simply to change the text -- for ALL users -- so that it says the
equivalent of; "licensing of codecs may be required in some jurisdictions", rather than todays
blanket-statement that it IS required full stop, no qualifications, which is just plain wrong.

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This is the wrong approach...

Posted Nov 8, 2007 9:53 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

Seconded.  It's also not hard to list the affected jurisdictions.  To the best of my knowledge
that list would be rather short: USA.