Le vendredi 26 septembre 2008, à 16:09 +0200, Michael Loeffler a écrit :
Hi,
we discussed already once [1] the situation with proprietary software on our distribution. We agreed on the list and in an IRC project meeting that it's not nice but is very convenient for many users and should stay therefor on media.
I'm opening the discussion again as with that we never will achieve a user friendly licence as already copying of our software on DVD is not allowed and even some mirrors have an issue with this licence. We receive on a regular base inquiries in this regards and bad press [2].
Here is our proposal for new discussion.
*Ship any media of openSUSE with open source software and proprietary software which allows redistribution (eg. firmware), for details [3].
*Add during installation automatically an online repo with the non-OSS stuff and install per default flashplayer (5MB) and the fluendo plug-in (210K) for mp3.
I'd hate that we had to enable a non-OSS repo by default without the user needing it. I'd very much prefer to do that in contextual places. Example: + the user is browsing a web page with flash but has not flash plugin installed. A dialog prompts him that he can install a flash plugin: either the adobe one (which works better), or an "experimental" (or whatever) free one. Then we enable the non-OSS repo if necessary. + the user plays a mp3 file in amarok/banshee/rhythmbox/etc. and GStreamer detects that there's no plugin for that. A dialog prompts the user... (note that GStreamer supports detection of missing plugin and outside installation of those missing plugins since quite some time -- we should handle that). Doing this when it's required is better than always install something. Just my €0.02, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org