ogg radios for rhythmbox

[Paul van Leeuwen]

What I'm wondering: where are those legal borders?

- An OS of music player may respond on which TYPE of file is played.
- The response may be the execution of a little program offering
LINKS-TO a variety of ways to obtain mp3-decoding.
- Offering objective information / warning for the options and leaving
the choice to the user
- As long a the list of references to the alternative options in
complete en objective enough... where's the problem.

To ask again in short: Where (and why) are those legal borders?
(not to be a whiner, I just wonder how these things work :))

Greetings
Paul

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:01:23 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> <quote who="Paul van Leeuwen">
> 
> > This is an old discussion, but wouldn't it be nice to have a 'one-click
> > installer' for mp3 with disclaimer during installation (to meet home-users
> > that are unfamiliar with apt-get)?
> 
> > Am I alone on this view?
> 
> You're certainly not alone, but we can't do it until there is a legal way to
> do so. I do know of a potential solution in the works, which will provide a
> completely legal, licensed MP3 codec (yes, encoding and decoding) for a tiny
> fee. That will be a massive help. The technical users among us will still be
> able to install non-kosher Free Software MP3 packages, and there's not a lot
> we can do to make that easier without being on shaky legal ground.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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