RE: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)
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If it only costs a one-time payment of $50-60K to license mp3 decoding, why isn't Redhat doing it? If it's strictly to appease the GPL then couldn't they ship some type of "add-on" pack that included this feature (and maybe the DVD encoding as well.) This would be similar to the MS markets the Plus Pack and would still allow Redhat to say the OS is shipped GPL compliant. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Michael Knepher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike) On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 05:47, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:07:45AM -0800, Michael Knepher wrote: > > > SuSE: based in Germany. > > So is Fraunhofer. > > > Mandrake: based in France. > > And, if I'm not mistaken, Thomson is hq'd in France. Nope, I'm not > > mistaken. > > Yeah, but the patent situation may be different over there. > All the patents and what countries they're held in: http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html > > -- > Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Michael Knepher <[email protected]> -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list