codec buddy pain

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > If that's the case then we should just give up on this quixotic goal of
> > having a pure-free-software distro and start talking to companies for
> > how they'd like us to provide their closed-source packages and how to
> > tie a webstore frontend into yum.
> 
> yumgate!  woo!
> 
> In all seriousness I don't think that there are a lot of instances where 
> we would be willing to do something like what we've done in this case. 
> I'm happy with inconsistency, as long we're transparent about it.
> 
> In this case it's just because there's no other legal way to do it.  We 
> can't even ship the free versions because of patent concerns.
> 

This is what I'm looking for here. I'd like to be able to say something
that kinda-sorta makes sense for reasons to say no to money from some
vendor to put an ad for their software in the distro.

-sv