Royalty free gstreamer plug-in

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
>Red Hat can sign a redistribution contract with Fluendo that allows them
>to also rebuild this source code into binaries to which Fluendo's patent
>license applies.
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Yes. The requirement to sign up agreements with Fluendo is important 
here. We can choose to do that for RHEL but its a believe its a 
compromise to make one of the primary design principles of Fedora.

>Also keep the following in mind; the MIT license was specifically chosen
>because it contains no specific language about patents, like the GPL
>does.  You will find that all other mp3 decoding projects have chosen
>the GPL.  Some of them did so because they know the GPL presents
>problems when it comes to patents, thus providing incentive to people
>who want to use their software to pay for an alternate license.  This is
>one of the ways one can make money off of writing GPL software :)
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Yes. it is. Congrats on figuring out a Free software business model.  
The situation seems to be a bit more trickier than my understanding of 
it. I guess we need to call up the lawyers again to understand this more 
clearly.

-- 
Rahul 

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