[Gllug] Fwd: [opensuse] Invitation to OpenSUSE developers

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Fri Nov 24 22:36:22 UTC 2006


On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, - Tethys wrote:

> 1. I wasn't aware of that.
> 2. It's still endorsed by the Ubuntu project to a certain extent by
> the very fact that it's available on their site to download. You won't
> find an MP3 codec on the Fedora ftp site (or Debian? Do they still
> have a non-free section?)

Fedora seems then to be dominated by RedHat's policy of acknowledging 
dodgy patents.

Software patents are not valid here. Hence an MP3 codec should not be a 
problem.

jason
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