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[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:38 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> RealPlayer too? What's happened? I thougt RP was considered "evil"
> because of properitary formats?
> 
> Does this mean that mp3 and rp streams will work out-of-the-box on fc3?
> 
> Kyrre

The codecs are different from the player, and the codecs are the ones
that need licensing from vendors like Apple, MS, Frauenhofer, etc.
Hence, they can't be in Fedora _Core_ since they aren't open source.

Dan