[Fedora-legal-list] Can we get an official fedora position on OpenH264?

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> The OpenH264 binary from Cisco does not include a patent license which
> applies to the source. Fedora does not permit the inclusion of binary
> software without source code.
> 
> Thus, the OpenH264 code from Cisco is not acceptable in Fedora.
> 
> Whether it is acceptable for Firefox to download pre-built binary
> software for it to use... well, that decision is up to FESCo, but I
> would imagine that this is functionally equivalent to the Codeina/Codec
> Buddy MP3 situation, where it was decided that Fedora did not want to
> include software that did that.

... and if someone would like FESCo to issue a ruling, someone should open a
ticket so it can be a meeting item.

Bill