RH10 multimedia support

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at redhat.com
Sun Sep 7 23:44:49 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:23, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> Well depending on how paranoid a business you are, Red Hat would need to
> get permission from each company organization that originated the code.
> IE Sun would have to give permission for Red Hat to link to its Java
> engine sites, Real for the old player, Apple for quicktime codecs, etc 
> etc. [Knowing how quick their lawyers seem to jump on infringers who 
> have pocket books.. I would probably be paranoid.]

Codeweavers does this kind of deep linking now with their plugin, but
you could argue they don't have deep enough pockets to get sued (yet). 

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.





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