Am 08.10.2012 22:53, schrieb Martin Sandsmark: > I am arguing against the entire reason for having this thread. Vishesh > shouldn't have to go around worrying about this crap just because RedHat has > bad lawyers and has double standards when it comes to the software they are > shipping.
not so easy in the US > My suggestion would be that we just take a stand and force RedHat to re- > evaluate their stance on ffmpeg (or software that is covered by software > patents in general, like the kernel itself), so we don't have to deal with > this bullshit in the future. besides the redhat / patent / law discussion: if the plugin-system is flexible enough that you can install any however linked plugin later without introduce dependecies for any core-component which sould be optional -> all perfect in this case nothing is touching the lawyers and the enduser loving a as much as tiny sezup does not get more and more packages as cross-dependecnies IMHO this is the right way to go in any software-development and at the begin it was NOT clear if the core would introduce ffmpeg and wahtever else dependencies for whatever distribution
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