Totem any time soon?

[Sam Morris]

George Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-21-02 at 15:31 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
>> On 2/21/06, Joao Inacio <jcinacio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry for the harsh words, but from my user POV, totem and gstreamer
>>> could be the best software in the world, and they still would suck
>>> badly.
>>
>> you're confusing backend issues with frontend issues, and both of them
>> with legal issues...
>>
>> first of all, the backend/frontend distinction:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-February/015343.html
>>
>> second, the legal issues:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-February/015340.html
> 
> Yes this is surprising isn't it.  Please do read about the legal issues
> it's important that people understand this correctly.  There is nothing
> wrong with Totem, it works great and is getting better all the time.
> The problem is with restricted formats.  
> 
> If you think that the license issue is wrong and you are going to ignore
> it anyway, just remember that the same types of laws that restrict the
> content these codecs play are also the same laws that give the GPL it's
> power....

Well hold on, we shouldn't be confusing patents and copyrights. :)

-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

PGP key id 5EA01078
3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B  C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078