Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Stephan Binner <stbinner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008 18:08:39 Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
>
> > > per default flashplayer (5MB) and the fluendo plug-in (210K) for mp3.
> > Why not libxine1?
>
> openSUSE's libxine1 package doesn't provide MP3 support.

openSUSE distributes "libxine" package. The "libxine1" package from
VLC or Packman repository does include support for "restricted
formats."

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Stephan Binner <stbinner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008 22:00:39 Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
>
> > the major complaint is related to the point of the EULA concerning openSUSE
> > redistribution due to the presence of Novell brands.
>
> The Novell brands don't prevent redistribution. They only don't allow you to
> change the product to something totally different and still call it openSUSE.

The license agreement states "THE SOFTWARE MAY NOT BE SOLD,
TRANSFERRED OR FURTHER DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION
FROM NOVELL." My understanding is we are supposed to ignore that line
(if not technically even a BitTorrent download is a breach of the
EULA)
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