Sigh. "Everyone else does it" is not a valid legal defense.
That's not what I meant. I wasn't meaning that since everyone else has support that Fedora should also based completely on that fact. My point was that there are other distro's that -are- selling their products with MP3 support, yet Fedora does not, and it's freely available... not sold.
If you use the things in the MP3 patent for commercial use, you are required to pay royalties. The GPL doesn't allow restrictions on use via patents. All "GPL" MP3 software is not GPL compatible.
But Fedora is not a commercial product... it isn't "revenue-generating", as the company holding these patents likes to put it. Why should they expect for a company, or developer, to pay royalty licensing fees for a product that isn't sold?
I'm sorry, let's just drop this, I don't mean to drag this into the ground any further, it's just a problem that seems to cause people to consistantly ask for help on. Perhaps there should be a notice on the Fedora site about this, howtos or links to howtos and rpms, etc... (that is if there isn't one already...)