Hi, I didn't mention any specific country, nor the whole world I just said "for which no legal plugins are available." which seemed to be the most neutral way of putting it.\ I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it *allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to download/use them AFAIK).
Edward On 3/7/06, Tommi Vainikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-03-07T11:34:25+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GStreamer 0.10 will also allow users to take advantage of multimedia > > plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed > > codecs for which no legal plugins are available. These may include > > support for AC3, WMA, MP3 and more. A licensed, yet freely available, > > MP3 plugin for GStreamer 0.10 has already been made available by > > Fluendo, a long-time supporter of GStreamer. > > For me this seems bit U.S. centric. In many countries (even Western > countries) reverse engineering is allowed. In many more countries > there are no patents restricting those file formats. Therefore > codes/plugins are most likely "illegal" only in U.S. and some other > countries, but not all over the world. > > -- > Tommi Vainikainen > -- Edward Hervey Junior developer / Fluendo S.L. http://www.pitivi.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
