Question on legalities

Jonathan Carter jonathan at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 6 16:46:50 GMT 2010


Hi Neil

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Neil Coetzer <neil at ubuntu.org.zw> wrote:
> Our concerns are that since these codecs are not shipped with Ubuntu
> for reasons of the legalities involved, would it be acceptable for us
> to make the script and package cache available on our LoCo site or
> not? We would like to have this available on our LoCo Web site (mostly
> for team members to be able to download and then use later offline
> where necessary), but if the general feeling on this is that it
> wouldn't be "right", then I'll possibly place it on my company site
> instead.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.

I speak under correction, but from what I understand, the biggest
problem with most of the codecs relate to patent issues in the US. I
think if you use and distribute them in Zimbabwe you should be ok.
<notalawyer />

-Jonathan



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