[ATrpms-users] kaffeine-extras-nonfree

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Nov 20 18:24:06 CET 2006


Axel Thimm wrote:

> 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?

That's probably the largest part of it, they aren't constrained to abide 
by (U.S.) patents.

Bummer too, since even debian includes this kind of stuff as "free", 
even though it isn't (at least not by Fedora's standards and definitions 
of free).

-- Rex



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