On Saturday 05 May 2007 11:48, Justin Haygood wrote:
Helix Banshee I find very useful... I believe it uses Real's license since RealPlayer is doing the hard work of decoding.
Never tried it, but even than, so far I understand, it is workaround for most of audio part.
I think it might be easier to get to partner wtih companies that already have licenses, and pay royalties. for BSD-licensed software, you can still provide open source software and link to the (necessarily, specially in the US) proprietary codecs and encryption stuff. I think Linspire does this...
I have forgotten Linspire. It would be interesting to see how they do.
It might not make sense for Novell to do this, but members of the community can create a deriv of OpenSUSE that's basically a "home edition" type distro that takes the opensuse base and adds all the cool stuff legally :) (like linspire is to debian/ubuntu)
The extra distro can be created, but that is not the same. Users should have clean legal situation too. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org