Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin in Main for Dapper?

[John Nilsson]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:30 -0800, Mike Douglas wrote:
> 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.

It's not the the patent fact I'm talking about. If the MIT licensed code
was compiled and the resulting binary was shipped by Ubuntu we have the
same situation as what you describe.
I'm talking about the actual binary from fluendo. This binary is
licensed under a non-free license. That's all I'm saying.

And, oh, by the way IANAL ;-)

Regards,
John