On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:11 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Thomas Vander Stichele writes: > > > However, not everyone in the GNOME community necessarily agrees with > > this. I got *a lot* of requests to add an mp3 recording profile to > > gnome-media. Historically, I've always refuted these requests because I > > agree that GNOME should not be endorsing them. > > I guess that adding this profile is OK. GStreamer command line > parameters are not patented. Applications will make it active/displayed > only if proper GStreamer module is installed.
I was replying to Alan's change from "contain" to "contain or endorse". My choice as a gnome-media maintainer was to not endorse mp3, period. No matter how other people want to spin it, mp3 is not a free format, period. The fact that GStreamer command lines are not patentable is irrelevant - in my spare time, I code for freedom, and I prefer not to endorse patented formats. All I was pointing out is that not everyone in the GNOME community has the same motives - you've obviously noticed that e.g. Ronald has a different motivation, which is fine. But when writing the release notes, we should try to reflect some sort of consensus on our motivations, I think ? Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> I hit him around a lot. For Spike, that's like third base ... <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
