On 03/21/2012 06:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 01:46 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Avi אבי Alkalay אלקלעי wrote: >>> What are the legal tools that Ubuntu uses so it can ship H.264 ? >> >> It's based on the Isle of Man, not in the USA. > > Regardless, as far as I know, Ubuntu does not ship h.264 encoding or > decoding support in any of its standard, official releases. It has only > done so in custom OEM builds, with specific licensing agreements in > place - the systems provided with h264 support were licensed. See > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/canonical_h264_video/ , for > e.g., from when this 'ubuntu ships h264' meme first started going > around. It really doesn't. If you google 'ubuntu h264', what you get are > lots of instructions for installing packages from third-party repos.
Note that Debian does include a decoder by default for both MP3 and H.264 but they can only do so because they are a non-profit and the worst case scenario is a injunction until they remove the infringing parts so realistically noone is going to go after them because one cannot extract money from Debian. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
