[ATrpms-users] kaffeine-extras-nonfree

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> On 11/20/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> >
> >Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >
> >> I guess my friend Richard Stallman would say that I am not being free
> >using
> >> mp3, but ogg does not play in my car. If there is a kaffeine rpm, why
> >not
> >> offer everything it is supposed to do?
> >
> >Note the missing functionality is mp3 *encoding*.  If one simply
> >installs xine-lib-extras-nonfree, you can decoding for free.
> >
> >-- rex
> >
> 
> Rex,
> 
> this was said in my first message. We can also encode using grip, xmcd,
> mplayer, or whatever. The point is that kaffeine possesses this
> functionality, so why offer a castrated version? It has a nice interface
> after all, and it is very simple to encode using kaffeine.
> 
> I just posted the rpm because I did not find it anywhere. The .src.rpm was
> downloaded from extras, but the non free part was broken.
> 
> /Paulo Roma.

Red Hat is afraid of being sued for freely distributing patented
software w/o paying royalties to the patent holders, therefore there
exists a policy that anything hosted on its servers or is directly
related to the company (e.g. "sponsored by Red Hat") is not allowed to
carry certain patented parts like mp3, mpeg and so on.

What I don't understand is why Ubuntu can obviously do that, but
perhaps that's because Red Hat is in the U.S. and Ubuntu in South
Africa?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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