El Jueves, 18 de Agosto de 2005 21:30, Dan Gordon escribió:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 2:53 pm, Buddy Lindsey wrote:
One thing I am curios about is why did they take out mp3 support in the first place?
I believe because the codecs are not gpl. Most distros are doing this.
Who says MAD is not GPL? http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ Just read the 3rd paragraph: "MAD has the following special features: [...] available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)" Perhaps the problem is related to the MP3 patent there's in the USA. AFAIK that's why Fedora removed it. Suse is being developed in Europe, but Novell is USA-based so perhaps that's the problem. If they want to sell Suse in USA they may: a) remove support for MP3 or b) pay millons of dollars to the MP3 patent holders to get a license Obviously there's no choice. Releasing a version for the USA without MP3 support and another for the rest of the world with MP3 support could be an option but it's much harder and more costly than just providing MP3 support packages through YaST Online Update. -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.