Op woensdag 06-01-2010 om 19:33 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Martin Owens: > It really does depend on what codecs and extras.
Right. > For all of the totem plugins, you should be fine. Those plugins aren't > illegal in any way, anywhere in the world. There is just a legal grey > area about weather or not that Free Software, maybe, possibly, could be > covered by patents which maybe, possibly be attractive to the owners to > sue over. Even then it's a civil case matter, not a criminal one. It's not like patent violation is legal in most countries, so there certainly might be some issues. Only somebody with local legal education/experience can know what applies. > For w32codecs and ms-corefonts, that's illegal. It's copyright > infringement if you start dishing them out. Actually, msttcorefonts is 100% legal (while w32codecs is 100% illegal in most countries). > I think you can ship the flash player deb, but you'll also need to get > the flash player binary that the deb downloads. Check the licensing > agreement to see if you can redistribute. You can only distribute the flash plugin if you have an agreement with Adobe, and AFAIK they almost never agree on re-distribution policies, so this might be difficult. -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
