Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den Tuesday 14 August 2007 09:25:21 skrev Clayton:
> > I had to remove a number of software packages in the last days from the
> > openSUSE Build Service for legal reasons.
> >
> >  http://en.opensuse.org/Application_Black_List
>
> I fully support (and understand) the decision to remove the
> packages... but... this raises this issue yet again...
>
> We as a community NEED to find a solution to this problem.  Ignoring
> it (like we have been doing) and hiding behind the old mantra of "it's
> proprietary" or "it uses blah blah blah and that isn't licensed to be
> used in Linux" is not fixing the problem

Whatever happened to the new Helix Engine. 

I seem to remember RealMedia settling a court case with Microsoft, which meant 
that they would be able to provide legal playback of MS formats. The new 
engine was expected in the fall of 2006 and was expected to be featured in 
SLED 10 SP1 - but it was never heard from again..

Does anybody know what happened or did I dream it all up?
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