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

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 03:33:12PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
> 
Opened: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1192

If we discuss that and come to a decision at Wednesday's fesco meeting,
there should be just enough time to send something to the webrtc working
group mailing list before their meeting.

-Toshio
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