What next?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:32 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> *snip*
> >  If
> > there was a BSD "copyright" licensed implementation out there for mp3,
> > that would change things considerable. BSD "copyright" license is
> > perfectly compatible with non-commercial use "patent" licenses like
> > what Fraunhofer currently allows.
> 
> So that somebody would write a BSD gstreamer mp3 plugin, and RH would
> call Fraunhofer and get the goahead for Fedora - it would be OK (but
> they would have to pay fraunhofer for distributing the same plugin with
> RHEL?)?

But is that what we want? To enable anybody to just take Fedora and
distribute it -- for free or for money -- we don't want to include
software with specific license exemptions for us. Having a patent
license exemption only for the project wouldn't be different in my eyes.

Nils
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