On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Tom Callaway
<tcallawa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/30/2018 01:07 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>> someone asked in ask site [1]
>>
>> Can Fedora consider allowing the package "libmpeg2" into the Fedora
>> family for the next release?
>
> Patent situations are rarely as simple as they appear to be, but we are
> investigating what we can do here.
>
Any updates to the situation? The date has since passed, and even
MPEG-LA has acknowledged MPEG-2's new patent-free situation[1].
It'd be nice to have the ability to create DVDs within Fedora itself.
[1]:
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M2/Pages/PatentList.aspx
I am confident Fedora Legal will announce anything on this topic as
soon as they possibly can. Asking about it 6 days after that patent
expired is both unrealistic and unhelpful. Legal matters are very
complicated and take time.
josh