Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 09:25, Clayton wrote:
> > I had to remove a number of software packages in the last days from the
> > openSUSE Build Service for legal reasons.
> >
> > I do maintain also a list of this software, which is known (to our legal
> > folk) to be illegal at this place:
> >
> >  http://en.opensuse.org/Application_Black_List
>
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>
> Well... why can't we (the community... Novell... who?) provide a
> binary that we as consumers can purchase - thereby fulfilling the
> license requirements by providing the license fees to teh patent
> owners - and then install on our computers?  
This might help: https://shop.fluendo.com/
There a variety of multimedia codecs can be purchased and everything is legal. 
M
> What is really stopping 
> this?  A philosophical reason?  I detest software patents as much as
> the next guy, but they are an unfortunate reality...
>
> I would love to see a proper and legal solution to this.  As long as
> there is no legal solution the end users will continue stepping over
> the line because we have no other choice... other than to completely
> shut ourselves off from the world... and that is not going to happen
> in the real world... maybe in some fantasy world... but... the reality
> is we as users demand a decent media player that supports the media
> formats available (as MPlayer and Xine already do).
>
> The ridiculous solution of shipping a crippled build of the Xine
> library... is just that.. ridiculous... completely understandable from
> the legal aspect, but... the wrong solution to the problem.
>
> I don't have the magic answer... but I really hope I can light a fire
> under the right people and the community can find a legal and
> acceptable solution that provides the functionality instead of simply
> breaking the applications rendering them totally useless to the end
> users.
>
> C.
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