On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 14:20 -0800, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
As already indicated, if you don't want to have any proprietary codecs on your system, then I guess you better stick to Opera and/or FireFox. The only way that Chromium will change the build-flags is either based on the indication from a majority that this is what they want or the indication from the SuSE legal team that these codecs are indeed not allowed to be build on the openSUSE OBS.
Raymond, I think it's rather a question if we as openSUSE are allowed to distribute those codecs in binary form. So far, it was always clearly stated that 'NO' (legal loosened up on the 'source' in the tarballs, but never on the binary parts). Except for MP3 Fluendo, where a special agreement exists (and fluendo pays the patent fee IIUC, in hope to get more users to buy the full codec pack). So, with my limited knowledge on the topic at hand, I'd advise you to seek assistance from the legal team. Cheers, Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org