On Friday 19 of March 2010, Karsten König wrote:
Am Freitag, 19. März 2010 11:50:22 schrieb Александр Мелентьев:
Lubos Lunak: That is very similar to "MP3 support is missing, press Yes to install it from Packman", so as I said, unlikely.
Then OK, let's write "
support is not available due to patent issues, for more information, see http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats". Is that OK with the law?
I don't know, I will check.
But one-click install of codecs and stuff is only three clicks away from there =)
That sounds good to me, but has it really been that big of a showstopper?
From what I know, people complain a lot about missing codecs. I even had a colleague here asking me why his Amarok doesn't play any music, so it's clearly not just for Joe Clueless User. And either way, this is convenience.
Other distributions use on-demand install of codecs succesfully. What are the real objections of lawyers to the user's "I wanna listen this damn MP3, gimme the package and shut up!" position expressed in a yes/no dialog? ))
I don't know exactly. I assume they want to be able to say "So the user uses MP3 unlicenced? But we had nothing to do with that!". Which is the case if openSUSE doesn't not even include a link to Packman, but is not if openSUSE points to it. The dialog itself is probably fine, pointing to the package is not.
And what is average nonUS-user reaction to "We will not give you direct link to Packman, cause you want to break the US law"?
It is probably still a better reaction than what would be that of some people inside Novell if we did give a direct link to Packman and as such in a way endorsed the usage of those MP3 packages. There have ben lawsuits about even more stupid things. Karsten's explanation is right - Novell is too big a target and not willing to make it too easy to get shot this way. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org