Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/19 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>:
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> Hi all -
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> I haven't seen this topic come up in a while, so I'd like to start a new
> discussion about it.
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> I understand the reasons we don't install Codecs with openSUSE - we
> don't have licenses for them, they may be patent encumbered, blah blah..
> but we also have infrastructure for other data and software that have
> similar conditions. We can help the user find what they need even if we
> can't distribute it ourselves.
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> 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.

Flash: Either the license doesn't puts restrictions to redistribution
or there is an agreement between Novell and Adobe
MS Fonts: Without double checking, the license allows redistribution.
It just doesn't allows to change the distribution form or something
similar... that's why we use an script instead of packaging them in an
RPM.
Firmwares: Either it's a script that downloads from the original
homepage (so we aren't distributing), or the license allows for
distribution or there is an special agreement.

Closed source != distribution not allowed and VERY DIFFERENT to patent
encumbered. The problem with codecs are patents, nothing to do with
the examples you gave. This have really been discussed a lot already.
Please, not again.


Anyway, there is some RPM/PackageKit/GStreamer integration from Fedora
that I don't know which status has in Factory but that makes things
pretty easy. The only step the user have to done is adding Packman.
But that only works with GStreamer (mostly Gnome).
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