-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote:
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:47:26PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Disregarding users opinions, even in this respect, may lead to the point that users dislike the distro or whatever and make it useless. The most important part of any software is users, not developers. It is users using a software who make it a success or a failure, regardless of how good the software is intrinsically.
It is however the developer who puts the licence on it and that has to be respected. Ignoring that licence is not an option, unfortunatly. Otherwise MPlayer could easily be included and libdvdcss.
Houghi, you're perfectly right insisting on the fact it's about the
license and about the developers who choose what license they put their
work under.
But just for the record, you've picked a bad example: both MPlayer and
libdvdcss are GPL ;)
They're not included because they potentially infringe patents and/or
circumvent copy protections (in the case of libdvdcss), which is illegal
in some countries (needless to say, it is illegal in the USA).
Any update on opensuse.ru ? ;)))
cheers
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