Hi all !
Since we have made a deal with MS about patents, I would like to ask include MS-patented Windows Media Codecs (WMA/WMV) with both openSUSE 10.2 and future SUSE versions... (including Enterprise). The code exists (on packman sites - the only problem was patents, which is solved now).
Feel free to open a feature request in bugzilla, but I don't think it's going to happen. The patent "pact" isn't a license to use
And I can just about guarantee that it won't happen for 10.2, it's far too late in the release cycle for new features of any kind
But only the PM/RM can speak authoritatively on this
There is much more to it than just including windows codecs. Probably _not even half_ of what you can download as 'w32codecs' belongs to Microsoft. Think of Divx.com, Apple Quicktime, just to name a few. And as far as I can predict, there has been no deal with those. So all that you could get ATM would be WMA and WMV and maybe some extra fluff Microsoft licensed. Now that's not worth the hassle. -`J' -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org