F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Here like I have mentioned in the same thread.  A Fedora spin without (all the free stuff(non patent encumbered ) that is provided by default)
would make sense and would free Fedora/Red Hat from litigation and would 
make it easier to include the stuff that will make media players play
everything under the sun and will not get in the way when buiding these 
apps.

It won't make sense for Fedora to not include support for the non-patent 
encumbered codecs since one of the primary objectives of Fedora is to 
enable and support free and open source software. Besides multimedia 
frameworks like gstreamer is a dependency of many many apps and 
excluding them all is not feasible. Normally users who want additional 
components would just grab those from a third party repo. If you are 
compiling from source, that's a smaller nice of users and you are very 
well equipped to remove whatever you don't want. Again, if you disagree 
and think your goal will help end users, feel free to build a Fedora 
spin exactly the way you want. The tools that we used to build Fedora 
are all available as part of Fedora.
> 
> It is not a bad thing Rahul. I have mplayer and gecko-media player built from source and I am doing fine.  I am not complaining.  
It would make sense to not have to ship crippled players *unless the 
users want those only**

Gstreamer has a plugin model and we don't include some of the plugins. 
This process doesn't require actively crippling anything.

Rahul