Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Mar 20 17:00:13 UTC 2007
Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:
>
>> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or, convince Apple they should release a Linux port of itunes...
>>>
>>> Who would pay for it? The problem isn't that the mp3 codecs are patent
>>> encumbered, they're that the people who own the patents charge a per
>>> seat licence feee, afaik...
>>>
>> They could always sell it like other closed source software. You can
>> sell commercial software that runs on Linux. You just can not use
>> GPLed code in your software. You can link to LGPL libraries...
>
> Which gets around fedora not being able to ship the code how?
>
Why would it have to be shipped with Fedora? Not all software you
use needs to be shipped with the distribution.
Mikkel
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