Fedora 9 to remove pointers to proprietary codecs
Fedora 9 to remove pointers to proprietary codecs
[Distributions] Posted Mar 17, 2008 19:47 UTC (Mon) by jake
The Fedora project board met on March 11 and decided to remove the pointers to the "non-free" Fluendo codecs from Codeina (aka CodecBuddy) for Fedora 9. This is a big change from the Fedora 8 behavior. The only Fluendo codec that will still be referenced from Codeina is the free MP3 codec, which may have patent problems in some jurisdictions. As might be guessed, there are folks on both sides of this contentious issue. Some think it runs counter to the ideals of Fedora, while others lament the treatment of Fluendo. LWN covered Codeina/CodecBuddy last November.