What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ... packages due to licensing issues"
Sean Estabrooks
seanlkml at rogers.com
Mon Sep 22 17:58:22 UTC 2003
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:56:13 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Randall J. Parr (RParr at TemporalArts.COM) said:
> > * This merger necessitates the removal of certain problematic
> > packages
> > due to licensing issues.
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that we will no longer be able to go to Fedora to
> > pickup the MP3, mplayer, etc. packages which have not been included
> > in recent Red Hat releases because of potential licensing problems.
>
> Correct.
>
> While I can't speak for certain, I'm sure there will be third
> party repository maintainers willing to host such software.
>
I see.. this answers my question from earlier as well. thanks.
Sean.
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