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Re: [opensuse-project] Multimedia support ie. aasy installation
- From: "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:03:57 -0500
- Message-id: <200705051503.57785.rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 05 May 2007 11:48, Justin Haygood wrote:
> Helix Banshee I find very useful... I believe it uses Real's license
> since RealPlayer is doing the hard work of decoding.
Never tried it, but even than, so far I understand, it is workaround for most
of audio part.
> I think it might be easier to get to partner wtih companies that
> already have licenses, and pay royalties. for BSD-licensed software,
> you can still provide open source software and link to the
> (necessarily, specially in the US) proprietary codecs and encryption
> stuff. I think Linspire does this...
I have forgotten Linspire. It would be interesting to see how they do.
> It might not make sense for Novell to do this, but members of the
> community can create a deriv of OpenSUSE that's basically a "home
> edition" type distro that takes the opensuse base and adds all the
> cool stuff legally :) (like linspire is to debian/ubuntu)
The extra distro can be created, but that is not the same.
Users should have clean legal situation too.
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Regards,
Rajko.
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> Helix Banshee I find very useful... I believe it uses Real's license
> since RealPlayer is doing the hard work of decoding.
Never tried it, but even than, so far I understand, it is workaround for most
of audio part.
> I think it might be easier to get to partner wtih companies that
> already have licenses, and pay royalties. for BSD-licensed software,
> you can still provide open source software and link to the
> (necessarily, specially in the US) proprietary codecs and encryption
> stuff. I think Linspire does this...
I have forgotten Linspire. It would be interesting to see how they do.
> It might not make sense for Novell to do this, but members of the
> community can create a deriv of OpenSUSE that's basically a "home
> edition" type distro that takes the opensuse base and adds all the
> cool stuff legally :) (like linspire is to debian/ubuntu)
The extra distro can be created, but that is not the same.
Users should have clean legal situation too.
--
Regards,
Rajko.
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