Royalty free gstreamer plug-in

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>Could you expand a bit on what you mean by "the Free software
>situation" ?
>  
>
The inability of distributions who want to support only open source 
software to distribute mp3 codecs

>Fluendo does not sell a proprietary plugin for mp3 playback.  Fluendo
>gives away both MIT-licensed source code, as well as binaries that come
>with a patent license, built from this source code.
>
>  
>
Yes, you get a gratis codec but its still  patent encumbered in many 
regions. People who are willing to accept and use a binary codec an use 
it. I am not belittling your work. Having a codec that works across the 
entire set of applications that use gstreamer is fabulous but it doesnt 
mean that Fedora can ship it unless they accept to ship a binary codec 
which is not what Fedora is all about.  Real Player was available 
previously if the project wanted to do that.

-- 
Rahul 

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