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On Mar 21, 2012 2:30 AM, "Fedora Video" <<a href="mailto:fedoravideo@gmail.com" target="_blank">fedoravideo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:metherid@gmail.com" target="_blank">metherid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Note that Debian does include a decoder by default for both MP3 and<br>
>> H.264 but they can only do so because they are a non-profit and the<br>
>> worst case scenario is a injunction until they remove the infringing<br>
>> parts so realistically noone is going to go after them because one<br>
>> cannot extract money from Debian.<br>
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> This is not true according to the debian social contract. <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/social_contract</a> <br>
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> There is no mention of copyright on the page. It is not a page about copyright.<br>
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> Your argument is refuted most strongly by<br>
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> License Must Not Be Specific to Debian<br>
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> No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups<br>
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> No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor<br>
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> The document is quite clear that Debian will not distribute software which only they can distribute or which can only be distributed non-commercially. <br>
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> Debian distributes H.264 because it is free at least in the majority of the world which does not have a terrorist government. Put down your religion and look again.<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Kevin Kofler <<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at" target="_blank">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Avi אבי Alkalay אלקלעי wrote:<br>
>> > What are the legal tools that Ubuntu uses so it can ship H.264 ?<br>
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>> It's based on the Isle of Man, not in the USA.<br>
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> Ubuntu's parent company is headquartered in the UK just like RedHat is headquartered in the US.<br>
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> If the US's repressive laws are holding Fedora back, why not simply open a Fedora organization in the Isle of Man just like Ubuntu has done.<br>
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> In any case. This argument is moot. Fedora will distribute H.264 because it will be part of Firefox.</p>
<p>It won't actually be part of Firefox at all as they are providing the ability to talk to an OS provided set of codecs including H.264 so it's essentially a pass through. The linux means of doing this will likely be gstreamer.</p>
<p>Peter<br></p>