Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:54 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> So, we already pull in flash player. We already pull in the MS TrueType
> fonts. We already provide infrastructure to automatically locate and
> install firmware for several devices that require firmware that can't be
> freely redistributed.

None of that is covered by patents. The "distribution" is all done by
the original sources, even though we provide the links.

Multimedia codecs are patented - not safe. Have the discussion with
legal

SuSE used to ship mp3 codecs - that stopped for a reason

Anders

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