On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 9:53 PM Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> wrote: > > On 9/27/22 2:36 PM, David Airlie wrote: > > The implicit IANAL is very clear here. > > I wish you had started the discussion the legal list yourself prior to the > git commit. > > A certain website that monitors this mailing list is probably already > preparing to > post how Fedora 37 is no longer going to work with popular video codecs. Once > that > post is made the Internet will take that story and bend it a few ways to make > us > look bad.
Phoronix already covered it being deactivated in Mesa upstream by default: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Optional-Video-Codecs Unfortunately, we have to be very careful to not provide a complete codepath to these codecs to avoid legal risks. (Of course IANAL) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
