On 28/08/2021 00.41, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-08-26 16:58:53 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|Legal reasons, explained in some details in the Wiki. Search for |"restricted formats", I think is the name. | |It is simply illegal for a multinational company with concerns in the |USA to distribute those privative and protected (like patented) software |parts. Packman, being solely German and a volunteer concern, is not |affected. | |It has been explained thousands of times over the decades of |open/S[uU]SE existence.
How is it, then, that the packages that you say cannot be distributed by OpenSuSE itself, have to be removed after distro installation, and replaced with the ones in the Packman repository that work? How can OpenSuSE provide those broken packages in the first place, if your assertion is true? OpenSuSE should just leave out those broken packages and let users install them directly from Packman.
That would be worse. What is installed is not broken, it just contains free and open codecs. Demand that the video companies publish videos in open formats instead of proprietary and restricted formats. Notice that by installing the codecs from Packman it is possible that your are breaking the law somewhere, depending on the country. Were openSUSE to not install those packages at all, then you would not be able to play even free videos. And the package manager would complain of missing packages. The installation would fail. Notice that packman is not the only solution. You can instead purchase legal and complete multimedia codecs from a company that is entitled to sell them. So, it is your choice: leave the originals, which can play only free and open and not patent encumbered or copyrighted codecs; or buy with your money a a bunch of legal codecs from Fluendo, for example; or possibly break the law somewhere and install codecs that ignore patents and copyrights. Maybe you can convince politicians to prohibit software patents. https://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_formats This has not changed in decades. Just read back the history in mail list and other fora. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))