[Fedora-packaging] Inaccurate information about LiVES package

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:11:19PM -0300, salsaman wrote:
> Please answer the question. I have been personally assured by
> representatives of the mplayer developers that the ffmpeg code contains *no
> patented code*. I spent over two years fighting to convince the debian
> developers that this was true, until they finally accepted it.

The general Fedora package maintainers aren't in a position to decide 
on legal question, so having this discussion here won't come to any
useful conclusion. Only Fedora legal have the authority to decide on
legal questions & so they are the people you have to ask about this,
not Fedora packagers.

> I am very tired of this discussion, and I am not prepared to go through it
> all again with the fedora legal dept.
> 
> Please just point me to just one registered patent that the core of ffmpeg
> is known to violate.
> Otherwise you are just spreading FUD.

I'm not spreading FUD, merely directing you to people who actually have the
authority to speak for Fedora on legal questions like this. 

Daniel
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