Not wanting to enter a sterile argument about borderline topics, but: On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:27:07 +0000, Cinder Roxley wrote:
> These distributions either do not include the patented video formats or > provide them in source form for building. This is addressed in gstreamer’s* > documentation: > > https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/licensing.html (Licenses > of applications using gstreamer) This has nothing to do with any SL resident's legal right to play a "patented" media files on their computer using gstreamer (or any other software) CODECs, including in the US (unless the file was not legally acquired and the patent paid for it). As for LL and their viewer itself, like I explained: "*If* such patents prevent to provide a full set of CODECs, I guess LL would have to restrict their number in their pre-built library package (gstreamer is not monolithic, it is fully modular)" So it's not an obstacle but merely a limitaion. Note also that the CEF plugin will be faced with the *exact same* patent issues if it is to be used in place of the QuickTime plugin to play video and audio media files (which, like I explained and what you agreed with, is just "YUCK !" :-D ). > US and Australia, not to mention Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, NOPE ! You can forget about Germany and UK (at least till the "Brexit" for the latter, if it happens), because both countries are part of the UE and the latter totally and definitely rejected software patents. \o/ Regards, Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
