[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout : Why validate software patents ?

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Wed Dec 8 14:47:00 CET 2010


Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti:
> 2010/12/8 andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net>:
>> Ok, I think, how many other distros have such repositories.  According
>> to
>> comments on the list : none.
>
> Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
> they do not distribute such software at all,

In theory only. In practice, Mandriva ships many kind of patented MPEG-4
encoders/decoders, MP3 decoders, VC-1 decoders, etc. Some discussion about
this should probably be raised there as well.. If I simply had the time :/

> PLF does that for
> Mandriva. What about Ubuntu?

They ship such stuff (like ffmpeg with all decoders/encoders) in their
main repository, like Debian does. Also, their "universe" repository
(similar to Mandriva's "contrib") does not contain such limitations
either, containing stuff like x264 and mp3lame.

> What about Fedora?

Fedora does not have such software.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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