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 "<patented_format_name> support is not available due to patent issues, for more information, see http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats". Is that OK with the law? 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?
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? )) 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"?
Fedora Mandriva and openSUSE don't do that because they are quite entangled with their big sponsors which derivate from and contribute to the community spins. The sponsors have a big share of money in it they don't want to risk for something that easily "fixed". AFAIK in Ubuntu you need to activate the Universe repository which is just pulled in by debian and not touched by canonical, as most of the stuff in Ubuntu, but let's not drift off =) So what's left are distributions where there is nothing to gain from pursuing mp3 (etc) licences except a bad reputation, Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo etc, so they just do what the community repositories do on Fedora Mandriva openSUSE, be so "unimportant" to the big picture nobody expects any revenue from these sources. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org