What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ... packages due to licensing issues"

[Matthias Saou]

Bill Nottingham wrote :

> > 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.

You're saying that as if it hadn't ever existed outside of fedora.us, ouch,
really ouch :-(

Matthias

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