Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin in Main for Dapper?

Mike Douglas mike.douglas at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 21:30:03 GMT 2005


On 12/28/05, John Nilsson <john at milsson.nu> wrote:
> As fluendo is the only one with a license to create the binary plug-in
> it's by definition non-free.

But, John, we also don't have the right to distribute _any_ software
that is covered by a patent; by breaking any of those terms we have
broken the patent grant, something we are doing with much of the
software in Ubuntu's repository.

--
Mike


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