Hmm. This confuses me, then. Because I know it was a problem at one point, at least with SuSE. I had to get different packages from plf in order to play them.
- Travis. On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 19:25 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:59 -0500, Travis Beaty wrote: > > Now then. Having been involved in the Linux society and culture, I > > understand why closed-source software is shunned. However, I also see > > that, at this juncture, it is often necessary to make things work. > > Right now, I've got a wireless driver and a graphics driver that are > > proprietary. I know this because the Device Manager told me. I also > > have the restricted extras package installed. > > But Mp3 playback isn't closed source, it's not a problem because it's > licensed under the LGPL. You can play back MP3s and still be completely > free as in speech... patents aren't copyright, the owners of the code > actually want you to use these things as open source. > > Martin, >
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