RE: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:39, [email protected] wrote:
> 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.
> 

No, I think you're missing the point.  The one-time fee would allow Red
Hat (two words!) to distribute the codec, yes, but it couldn't be
redistributed by others.  The GPL requires that the software be
completely *re*-distributable.

Hope this helps,

Jeremy

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