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Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Mplayer-plugin |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:48:27 +1030 |
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Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Brian Brazil wrote:
>>
>>> GIven gNS's reluctance to include iffy media formats, it might not
>>> ever make it into gNS.
>> I wasn't aware of any media formats that we have explicitly removed.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
> I'm confused on this. I've heard some people say gnewsense is supposed
> to reject all patented formats (even when there's a freely licensed
> implementation), but there's definitely still patent-infringing code. I
> think perhaps people just noticed the removal of multiverse and thought
> that was largely due to patent issues.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
No software of any size is patent free (including Linux, OGG and
mplayer). AFAIK what happens with patents re gNewSense isn't decided,
but one thought i saw around was removing things with /enforced/ patents.
kk
>
>
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Karl Goetz
User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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