2010/11/19 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>:
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Hi all -
I haven't seen this topic come up in a while, so I'd like to start a new discussion about it.
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.
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). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org